The ambassador of Russia to Ukraine was the official representative of the president and the government of the Russian Federation to the president and the government of Ukraine.
The ambassador and his staff worked at large in the Russian embassy in Kyiv. There were consulates-general in Kharkiv, Lviv, and Odesa. Diplomatic relations were broken off following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and there are currently no official diplomatic relations between the two countries.
History of diplomatic relations
With the process of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic declared independence on 24 August 1991, later ratified by an independence referendum on 1 December. Ukrainian indepencence was recognized by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on 5 December 1991, and following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the RSFSR becoming the Russian Federation, formally established diplomatic relations on 14 February 1992. was appointed the first ambassador on 14 February 1992. The last Russian ambassador to Ukraine was Mikhail Zurabov, who remained in post until 2016, though representation was in effect by chargé d'affaires since 2014, following the Russian annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of the War in Donbas that year. The remaining diplomatic staff left Ukraine on 23 February 2022, the day before the Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine broke off diplomatic relations with Russia on the day of the invasion, and they have remained suspended during the ongoing war.
List of representatives of Russia to Ukraine (1991–present) NameTitleAppointmentTerminationNotesAmbassador14 February 1992 24 May 1996Yuri DubininAmbassador24 May 19966 August 1999 Ivan AboimovAmbassador6 August 199921 May 2001Viktor ChernomyrdinAmbassador21 May 200111 June 2009Mikhail ZurabovAmbassador6 August 2009 28 July 2016Andrey Vorobyov Chargé d'affaires23 February 20147 June 2014 Chargé d'affaires28 July 2016 16 November 2016 Chargé d'affaires16 November 2016 10 February 2022 Vladimir ZheglovChargé d'affaires10 February 202224 February 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present) - Diplomatic relations interrupted
See also List of ambassadors of Ukraine to Russia
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