Foreign policy of Ukraine
The foreign policy of Ukraine is the strategic approach Ukraine takes to its relations with foreign nations, cooperation with international organizations, promotion of its national interests and protection of the rights of its citizens and diaspora abroad.
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The strategic goals of Ukraine's foreign policy include European and Euro-Atlantic integration, forming a relationship of strategic partnership with the United States of America and European Union, cooperation with member countries of the CIS and GUAM, active engagement with the UN and other international organizations, effective participation in the global economy with the maximum protection of national interests, and the transformation of Ukraine into a regional power.
Ukraine's foreign policy is guided by a number of key priorities.
Ukraine - Russia in 2018
According to a sociological survey conducted by the All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion in February 2018, 40% of Russians surveyed assess Russia's relations with Ukraine as tense, and 22% as hostile. At the same time, 40% of respondents believe that friendly, allied relations will eventually recover.
Four years after the change of power in Ukraine, about three-quarters of Russians (72%) follow the events, including 17% reported that they closely monitor the situation (this proportion is significantly higher among the older generation of 36% aged 60+ and 21% aged 45-59 years, than among young people, 2% among 18-34 year olds).
If the citizens of the Russian Federation estimated February 2014 as a revolution, a coup d'état (26%), less often as a planned provocation (8%) or a catastrophe for the country (8%), the current state of affairs is seen as a mess (16%), civil war (12%), crisis (8%).
From the events that occurred as a result of the Maidan, Ukraine lost - most Russians (75%) think that more than half of them are in all socio-demographic groups. The fact that those events did not change anything by their very nature, 13% converge and only 2% believe that Ukraine won.
Current relations between Ukraine and Russia are characterized by 40% of Russians as tense (this share is highest among young people, 47% in the group from 18 to 24 years), 22% - as hostile (the respondents are more likely to think aged 45 to 60, 26%), 13% consider them to be cool and 11% neutral. Almost half of the respondents believe that during the last year the relations between the two countries did not become either better or worse (49%), in the opinion of each third they only worsen (34%).
Prospects for the restoration of ties between Ukraine and Russia are assessed more positively by the Russians: 40% are sure that friendly, allied relations will be restored (46% are more optimistic about this estimate, 35% share this opinion among women), almost 38% that sooner or later the interaction of our countries will normalize, but one in 10 respondents (10%) will never be, never believes in the restoration of relations.
This should sum up its foreign policy as a beneficiary one.