Relațiile româno­-ucrainene în perioada 1917-­1919
Romanian­-Ukrainian Relations during 1917­-1919

Summary/Abstract: Perhaps the only similarity between the situation of the Romanians and that of the Ukraini­ans during the First World War was related to the fact that both peoples, conjecturally, fought on both sides of the barricade. Of course, there are marked differences. The Galician area was one of the most affected areas on the eastern front, both in terms of the battles waged here and by the adverse effects of the Russian and Austrian administrations The civil war, which quickly spread over the territory of the former Tsarist Empire, precipi­tated the situation of the impoverished Ukrainian state. On February 9, Rada representatives signed a Peace Treaty with the Central Powers. In exchange for the supply of cereal products, the centrals offered military support. In March, the Council reinstated in Kiev, but cordial relations with the Central Powers did not hold too much. In April, disturbed by the Socialist orientation of the Council, the Germans orchestrated its dissolution, instead installing the government led by Pavlo Skoropadskyi, with a conservative orientation. The ending of the ceasefire with the Central Powers on November 11, 1918 also meant the abrupt fall of the hatman Skoropadskyi. Power was taken over by a Directorate that allowed German­-Austrian troops to withdraw from the territory of Ukraine. The governing board ap­pointed the ataman Symon Petliura as head of the army. The political importance of Symon Petliura in 1919 is also apparent from the document we present to our readers. The sending of a military attaché by the Romanian General Headquarters to Petliura government (as it was officially recognized by the Polish authorities) demonstrates that the Bucharest decision­ma­kers sought to normalize the Romanian­-Ukrainian relations in a quite a troubled international context.

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