Germany–Ukraine relations

German -Ukrainian relations are the foreign relations between Germany and Ukraine. Germany has an embassy in Kiev, a consulate general in Donetsk and each one Honorarkunsulat in Kharkiv, Lviv, Odessa and Simferopol. Ukraine has an embassy in Berlin ( with branch office in Upper Winter in Bonn ) and three Consulates General in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich, and two honorary consulates in Leipzig and Mainz.

There live about 40,000 Ukrainians in Germany and about 33,000 German in Ukraine.

History

From 1918 and in the wake of the Treaty of Brest- Litovsk, German forces occupied a large part of Ukraine and established a puppet state in which Pawlo Skoropadskyj Hetman of the Ukrainian State was.

From 1941 to 1944, the Wehrmacht conquered ( with the support of the armed forces of Romania, Italy and Hungary ) a large part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; the OUN and its military wing, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, with the goal of an independent Ukraine, welcome the German help in the fight against Soviet Russia.

In the years 1944-1950, see many surviving OUN leaders and displaced Ukrainians refuge in the American occupation zone in Germany.

The Ukrainian Free University in 1945 moved its headquarters from Prague to Munich. In 1953 it started Radio Free Europe (later "Radio Liberation " ) began broadcasting in Munich and also sends to the Ukraine in the Ukrainian language.

Stepan Bandera in Munich in 1959 is murdered by Soviet agents Bogdan Nikolayevich Staschinski, this case will be referred to later as Staschinski case.