Partnership through years

Find out how Ukraine and Switzerland discovered each other and built bridges of partnership more than thousand kilometres apart.

Félix Baumann

Ambassador of Switzerland to Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to this platform, where you can find inspiring stories of cooperation between our two countries – from humanitarian aid and business grants to cultural initiatives and reconstruction efforts. And the best way to tell stories is through people – Ukrainians and Swiss – who face challenges, but continue to grow. These stories – sad and joyful, told by ordinary Ukrainians or described by my colleagues – are full of resilience and courage.

Take your time to learn more about the history of our bilateral relations, roots that have grown deeply over decades and laid a stable foundation for the partnership of our two countries.

From 1903 to the future

Chronology of bilateral relations

A stroll through this village is the highlight of any visit to the Val d'Anniviers. The narrow, pedestrianised main street is lined with sun-blackened wooden houses adorned with hundreds of fiery red geraniums.

Aside from watches, cheese and chocolate, there is hardly anything that people more clearly connect with Switzerland than its unique mountain scenery of Swiss Alps.

Chillon Castle, located on a rock on the banks of Lake Geneva, is the most visited historic building in Switzerland, which was the residence and profitable toll station for nearly four centuries.

Great Aletsch Glacier is the largest glacier in the Alps and the UNESCO World Heritage.

Interlaken is located in the west of Switzerland in the Bernese Oberland between Lake Thun and Lake Brienz. The place is world-famous for its range of adventure sports and the many top attractions.

Lake Geneva is a water body of superlatives mildest climate, and lake with the largest amount of water in Central Europe. The Celts called it “Large Water” or “Lem an”, and to this day it is called Lac Léman in French.

Lauterbrunnen has pretty much everything that makes Switzerland special, all in one place - natural spectacles against an alpine backdrop, picture-postcard villages and more.

Parliament Building in Bern and 26 fountains in front of it – a symbol of cantons.

The city by the water combines urban living with nature. Zurich is abuzz with activity day and night with its countless events, many museums and diverse gastronomic scene.

The office of the United Nations in Geneva is the European headquarters of the UN. The building complex, called the Palais des Nations, houses the UNHCR and the OHCHR, among other agencies.

The Pilatus Railway is a mountain railway in Switzerland and the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%.

The pyramid shaped colossus of The Matterhorn, which is very difficult to climb, is said to be the most-photographed mountain in the world.

To stand high above Europe's largest waterfall, feeling the roar and vibration of the water over one's entire body - this can be experienced at the Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen.