Slovakia–Ukraine relations
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Slovakia–Ukraine relations are foreign relations between Slovakia and Ukraine. Both countries established diplomatic relations on January 1, 1993. Slovakia has an embassy in Kyiv, a general consulate in Uzhhorod, and 2 honorary consulates (in Donetsk and Uzhhorod). Ukraine has an embassy in Bratislava and a general consulate in Prešov.
The countries share 97 km of common border. There are between 40,000 and 100,000 people of Ukrainian descent living in Slovakia.[citation needed]
During the Interwar era the Ukrainian Oblast Zakarpattia was part of Czechoslovakia, before being ceded to Hungary.[1]
See also
References
- ^ Serhy Yekelchyk (2007). Ukraine: birth of a modern nation. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 128–130. ISBN 978-0-19-530546-3.