Relationship dossier
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Relationship assessment
A practical relationship with a history of energy and commercial cooperation
Turkmenistan toward Ukraine
+15Turkmenistan supplied natural gas to Ukraine through arrangements involving bilateral and regional energy trade, providing a concrete basis for economic cooperation. The scale and continuity of this cooperation in recent years are unclear.
Ukraine toward Turkmenistan
+15Ukraine engaged in bilateral economic and energy cooperation with Turkmenistan, including arrangements connected to Turkmen gas supplies. The scope of current Ukrainian government cooperation with Turkmenistan is unclear.
Overall relationship
+15The relationship has included practical energy and commercial cooperation, but available knowledge does not support characterizing it as a close strategic partnership. Its enduring structure appears primarily transactional, with the scale and continuity of cooperation in recent years uncertain.
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
Overview
Turkmenistan and Ukraine have maintained a practical relationship shaped in part by energy and commercial cooperation. Turkmen gas was supplied to Ukraine under bilateral and regional arrangements, while the countries also pursued broader economic ties. The relationship has not been a close strategic partnership, and the scope of cooperation in recent years is unclear.
Key developments
Turkmen gas was supplied to Ukraine through bilateral and regional energy-trade arrangements.
Major uncertainties
- The scale and terms of current bilateral trade and energy cooperation are unclear.
- The extent of government-to-government cooperation since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine is unclear.