[1] It is part of the external border of the European Union (since Romania's accession to the EU in January 2007).

It starts along the Tisza River (through Maramureș) and runs across the historical region of Bukovina in the Eastern Carpathians.

Romania promised not to contest territories of Ukraine or Moldova, which it lost to Soviet Union after World War II, but requested that Russia as a successor of the Soviet Union recognized its responsibility in some form for what had happened.

[citation needed] only in Budjak area across the Danube In 2014, Romania and Ukraine signed a provisional agreement on local border traffic.

The agreement covers 662 localities in Ukraine (Transcarpathia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Chernivtsi oblasts).