Croatia–Ukraine relations
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 Croatia |
 Ukraine |
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| Embassy of Croatia, Kyiv | Embassy of Ukraine, Zagreb |
Croatia–Ukraine relations (Ukrainian: Українсько-хорватські відносини, Croatian: Hrvatsko-ukrajinski odnosi) are foreign relations between Croatia and Ukraine. The countries established diplomatic relations on 18 February 1992.[1] Croatia has an embassy in Kyiv and an honorary consulate in Donetsk. Ukraine has an embassy in Zagreb and honorary consulates in Malinska and Split. Croatia is a member of the NATO and EU which Ukraine applied for in 2022. Croatia supports Ukraine's NATO and EU membership.
History
Before 1991, both Croatia and Ukraine were part of multinational socialist states, SFR Yugoslavia and Soviet Union. Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991, but considering a three-month moratorium on the decision urged by the European Community, it put into effect on 8 October 1991. Ukraine proclaimed independence from the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991 and recognized Croatia on 11 December 1991 as the first United Nations member state which did it.[2] Diplomatic relations between two countries were established on 18 February 1992.[3]
Holodomor was recognized as genocide of the Ukrainian people by the Government of Croatia on June 15, 2023[4] with the Croatian Parliament adopting a declaration about the recognition on June 28, 2023.[5]
Diaspora
Ukrainians in Croatia
As of the 2011 Croatian census, there were 1,878 Ukrainians and 1,936 Rusyns living in Croatia.[6] Ukrainians and Rusyns of Croatia have opened two main cultural and educational organizations in Slavonski Brod and Vukovar, which later expanded into ten smaller communities each, presently operating in various Croatian cities including Zagreb and Rijeka. Croatia strives to meet the needs of the minorities and promote friendly ties between the two nations, having a central library in Zagreb since 1995, a cathedra for Ukrainian language and literature at the University of Zagreb since 2001, and classes provided in the Ukrainian language.[7] Various dates of importance to Ukrainian history, holidays and manifestations are commemorated every year.[8]
Croats in Ukraine
As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, there were 126 Croats living in Ukraine.[9]
Resident diplomatic missions
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Embassy of Croatia in Kyiv -
Embassy of Ukraine in Zagreb
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