Ukraine

Current plate formats

• StandardSince 2004
  AA 1234 BC

  Two-letter regional code (AA and KA = Kyiv city, AI = Kyiv region, BC = Lviv region), four digits and two letters. Black on white with a blue strip carrying UA. Letters are limited to those shared by Latin and Cyrillic, except that the nationwide prefixes ED, DC, DI and PD (from 2023, for vehicles registered online, with no region) contain the Latin D. Each region has had up to four codes (one in the 2004 series, one in 2013 and two in 2021), so one region has several; the older ones stay valid.

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• ElectricSince 2022
  AA 1234 YA

  Electric cars registered since May 2022 get a series that starts with the Latin letter Y (for Ukraine) and green characters; the regional prefix and digits are as on regular plates. Earlier electric plates used a series with Z.

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Regions (27)

• Kyiv
• Vinnytsia Oblast
• Volyn Oblast
• Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
• Donetsk Oblast
• Zhytomyr Oblast
• Zakarpattia Oblast
• Zaporizhzhia Oblast
• Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
• Kyiv Oblast
• Kirovohrad Oblast
• Luhansk Oblast
• Lviv Oblast
• Mykolaiv Oblast
• Odesa Oblast
• Poltava Oblast
• Rivne Oblast
• Sumy Oblast
• Ternopil Oblast
• Kharkiv Oblast
• Kherson Oblast
• Khmelnytskyi Oblast
• Cherkasy Oblast
• Chernihiv Oblast
• Chernivtsi Oblast
• Autonomous Republic of Crimea
• Sevastopol

Older formats

No longer issued, but some may still be on the road.

• Standard1995–2004
  123-45 BI

  Three digits, a dash, two digits and a two-letter series. The national flag at the left sits above two small digits, the region number (01 Crimea to 27 Sevastopol, 28 nationwide); the series also stands for the region (BI, BT and BX for Vinnytsia Oblast). Still valid.

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History

1. 1995

   Plates of five digits with a dash and a two-letter series, with a numeric region code (01–27) at the left.

2. 2004

   Current format with a two-letter regional prefix.

3. 2013

   A second set of regional prefixes (KA, KB, KC, ... HA, HB, ...) is introduced as the 2004 ones run out.

4. 2021

   A third set of prefixes (KK and TT for Kyiv city, IM and PI for Vinnytsia Oblast, ...) is ordered by the Interior Ministry.

5. 2023

   Plates for vehicles registered online carry the nationwide prefixes ED and DC (driver's electronic cabinet) or DI and PD (Diia portal) instead of a region code, under the Interior Ministry order of December 2022.