Czech Republic–Ukraine relations

During the Interwar era, the Ukrainian oblast Zakarpattia was part of Czechoslovakia, before being cededtoHungary.^[1]

Immigration to the Czech Republic from Ukraine, primarily for economic reasons, began to grow significantly in the early 1990s following the end of the Cold War.^[2] In 1991, 8,500 Ukrainian citizens were recorded as living on Czech territory, with that number increasing to 132,481 as of October 2018^[update], according to the Czech Statistical Office.^[3] This made Ukrainians the largest expatriate group within the Czech Republic, comprising 30% of the country's total international population.^[4]

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the number of Ukrainians within the country increased drastically as thousands fled the war. As of July 31, 2023, over 357,000 refugees from Ukraine have been given temporary protection status within the Czech Republic, making the country the third largest destination for Ukrainians in the European Union.^[5]

• Foreign relations of the Czech Republic
• Foreign relations of Ukraine

• Markus, V. (1994), "Ukrainians in the Czech and Slovak Republic", in Pawliczko, A. L. (ed.), Ukraine and Ukrainians throughout the World: The Demographic and Sociological Guide to the Homeland and Its Diaspora, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 147–159, ISBN 978-0-8020-7200-9
• Nekorjak, M. (2006), "Klientský systém a ukrajinská pracovní migrace do České republiky", Sociální studia, 3 (1): 89–109, doi:10.5817/SOC2006-1-89, ISSN 1214-813X
  • An English version was also presented as a conference paper, Čermáková, D; Nekorjak, M. (2007), "Ukrainian Middleman System of Labour Organization in the Czech Republic" (PDF), Mezinárodní migrace a nelegální pracovní aktivity migrantů v Česku v širším evropském kontextu, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Charles University, retrieved 2009-12-23^{[permanent dead link]}

• Czech embassy in Kyiv
• Ukrainian embassy in Prague