ANY HELP FOR UKRAINE?

Abstract

Sine quo dubium, Europe is currently facing the most difficult situation in the last seventy years. After a pandemic that lasted almost two years and had disastrous consequences both at European and global level, Europe today faces an unimaginable scenario until now, a scenario in which the main characters are Ukraine, in the role of victim, and the Russian Federation in the role of invader. After seventy years of lasting peace, Europe is shaken again by war, fear and insecurity, even on Romania's borders. Of course, Romania did not remain indifferent to the situation of its Ukrainian neighbors, unconditionally supporting them, not only because they are neighbors but also because they share the same European values. Similarly, Poland did not remain indifferent to the drama of its 
Ukrainian neighbors for the same reasons. This study aims to analyze the international relations between Romania, Poland and Ukraine over the last 30 years (from the collapse of the communist regime in 1989 to the present), in order to extract examples of good practices that today underlie solidarity between those three states with different destinies but with a common past, which makes them support each other in critical situations, especially now that the national sovereignty of Ukraine is constantly threatened by the Russian Federation. The study also analyzes the impact of the European states' dependence on Russian gas and oil in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.