Romania–Ukraine border


The Romania–Ukraine border is the state border between Romania and Ukraine. It consists of both a land and a maritime boundary. The total border length is including by rivers and by the Black Sea. It is part of the external border of the European Union.
The maritime delimitation between the two countries, including the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone was adjudicated at the International Court of Justice in 2009.

Location

The land border consists of two parts: the northern part stretches across Carpathian Mountains region roughly west–east from the Hungary-Romania-Ukraine tripoint to the northern Moldova-Romania-Ukraine tripoint. It starts along the Tisza River and runs across the historical region of Bukovina in the Eastern Carpathians. The southern part stretches between Budjak and Dobruja regions roughly west–east from the southern Moldova-Romania-Ukraine tripoint to the maritime Romania-Ukraine boundary. It runs along the Danube River, its Chilia branch of its delta to the Black Sea. Until Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Dniester river used to serve as international border between Ukraine and Romania.

History

The border is mostly inherited from the Romania–Soviet Union border, with some border disputes, most notable being the Snake Island issue. On 4 July 2003 the President of Romania Ion Iliescu and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a treaty about friendship and cooperation. Romania promised not to contest territories of Ukraine or Moldova, which it lost to Soviet Union after World War II, but requested that Russia as a successor of the Soviet Union recognized its responsibility in some form for what had happened.
Nonetheless, the very next year in 2004 Romania contested Ukrainian maritime territory around the Snake Island in the ICJ in what became known as the Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea case. Romania was able to partially win the case.

Border crossings and checkpoints

Southern segment

Near the Black Sea, between the Odesa Oblast in Budjak area, and the Tulcea County, there are several ferry crossings across the Danube—
International:
Local:
Near Hungary, there are several crossings between the Zakarpattia Oblast in Ukraine and Satu Mare County there is a crossing:
Between Zakarpattia Oblast and Maramureș County there are several crossings:
The mountainous region between the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and Maramures has no crossings.
Between Chernivtsi Oblast and Suceava County there are several crossings:
Between Chernivtsi Oblast and Botosani County a crossing was opened in 2023:
In 2014, Romania and Ukraine signed a provisional agreement on local border traffic. It applies to the residents within the border area extendable to to accommodate larger administrative units extending beyond the 30 km zone, listed in Annex 1 to the Agreement.
The agreement was subject to the completion of the necessary internal formalities. The Romanian side completed them in March 2014. The Ukrainian side complete its arrangements in May 2015. The agreement covers 662 localities in Ukraine Transcarpathia. It is applicable to about 2 million Ukrainian and Romanian residents.