The Swedish government decided on 9 January 1992, to enter into an agreement with Ukraine to establish diplomatic relations.

It was signed in Kyiv by Sweden's Foreign Minister, Margaretha af Ugglas, and Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Anatoliy Zlenko.

[1] The Swedish embassy in Kyiv was opened in 1992 with its location at Hotel National on vul.

Since 2000 there is also a Swedish honorary consulate in Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine.

Sweden also had several consuls and vice-consuls in the Ukrainian part of the Russian Empire.