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Relationship dossier

Iceland Ukraine

Relationship assessment

Iceland provides sustained support to Ukraine, while bilateral security cooperation has deepened.

Iceland toward Ukraine

+50

Iceland has provided political, humanitarian, financial and defense-related support to Ukraine, including through a long-term security and cooperation agreement signed in 2024.

Ukraine toward Iceland

+15

Ukraine signed a security and cooperation agreement with Iceland in 2024, establishing a bilateral framework for continued cooperation. Further concrete Ukrainian government initiatives toward Iceland are less clear.

Overall relationship

+35

The relationship is cooperative and increasingly structured, chiefly through Iceland's support for Ukraine and the 2024 bilateral security agreement. The assistance relationship is substantially asymmetric, with Iceland providing the more extensive material support.

How to read these scores

Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.

−100
Extreme sustained hostility
−50
Substantially adversarial
0
Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
+50
Substantially cooperative
+100
Exceptionally close sustained partnership

“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.

Relationship context

Knowledge coverageLimited

Overview

Iceland has provided sustained political, humanitarian, financial and defense-related support to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion. The two governments signed a long-term security and cooperation agreement in 2024. Ukraine has participated in this bilateral framework, though the clearest concrete support has flowed from Iceland to Ukraine, making the relationship notably asymmetric.

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