Navigating Post-War Relations: Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Toward Russia

Abstract

It has been established that a potential peace treaty between Ukraine and Russia will face many challenges. The sudden post-war ‘normalisation’ of relations between the two countries is impossible. There is a plenty of possibility that the normalised border between the two countries would reproduce new, localised conflicts between the population due to unforgotten grievances that will stem from the war crimes Russia has committed, with the majority of the Russian papulation not having raised the voice of protest to stop the war. The study outlines the main trends in the foreign policy of Ukraine, Russia and other countries of the world, with an idea to form the form the guidelines for the potential post-war foreign policy of Ukraine. It was noted that such processes should be built on broad security guarantees from both, the European Union and the United States. It was determined that future security arrangements should be based on the historical foundations of the development of Ukrainian-Russian relations, awareness of the real aspirations of the Russian side and its potential future territorial encroachments.