Iraq–Ukraine relations
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Iraq–Ukraine relations are the interstate ties between Iraq and Ukraine. Iraq has an embassy in Kyiv and Ukraine has an embassy in Baghdad.
Approximately 5000 Ukrainian soldiers, in total, served in Iraq in the wake of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011). Ukraine provided the seventh-largest number of forces in Iraq with about 1,700 soldiers from 2003-2005 – 18 of them were killed.[1] In 2004, Ukraine was recognized as providing "excellent support" in the American administration's campaign against "terrorists" in Iraq.[2] In 2006, they shifted their operational focus and down-sized to a peacekeeping force of about 40 soldiers.[1]