2018 in Ukraine

Events in the year 2018 in Ukraine.

Incumbents

 * President: Petro Poroshenko
 * Prime Minister: Volodymyr Groysman

June
C14 (Ukrainian group) gained international notoriety after reports it was being involved in violent attacks on Romany camps.

November
2018 Kerch Strait incident

December

 * The Ukrainian Orthodox Church becomes independent.

Deaths





 * 14 January – Lidiia Hryhorchuk, linguist, linguogeographer, dialectologist, paleographer, art critic, professor and a doctor of philology (b. 1926).
 * 18 January – Borys Yukhymovych Steklyar, military officer (b. 1923).
 * 31 January – Leonid Kadeniuk, pilot and astronaut (b. 1951).
 * 10 February – Myroslav Popovych, philosopher (b. 1930)
 * 14 February – Pyotr Bochek, military officer (b. 1925)
 * 5 March – Mykhaylo Chemberzhi, composer (b. 1944).
 * 28 March – Kateryna Boloshkevich, weaver and statesperson (b. 1939).
 * 18 April – Grigory Gamarnik, wrestler (b. 1929).
 * 2 May – Vadim Mulerman, singer (b. 1938)
 * 6 June – Kira Muratova, film director, screenwriter and actress (b. 1934).
 * 19 June – Ivan Drach, poet, screenwriter and politician, member of Verkhovna Rada (b. 1936).
 * 7 July – Levko Lukyanenko, politician (b. 1928).
 * 23 July – Oksana Shachko, artist and human rights activist, co-founder of Femen (b. 1987).
 * 8 August – Mikhail Shakhov, wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1931).
 * 1 September – Mykola Shytyuk, historian (b. 1953).
 * 14 October – Valeriy Shmarov, politician, Minister of Defence (b. 1945).
 * 4 November – Kateryna Handziuk, politician (b. 1985).
 * 25 November – Viktor Kanevskyi, footballer (b. 1936).
 * 29 November – Viktor Matviyenko, football player and manager, Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1948).
 * 5 December –
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 * Ivan Hladush, police officer and politician, Minister of Internal Affairs (b. 1929).
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