Kamianets-Podilskyi fortress at sunset, Ukraine

Who needs a visa for Ukraine?

Eastern Europe · Kyiv

Photo: Rbrechko / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Of 198 nationalities, 81 enter Ukraine with no paperwork at all. The rest: 117 must be approved before they travel.

We have not found a Ukraine government portal we can link to with confidence, so we link to none — a lookalike is worse than nothing. Apply through Ukraine's own immigration service or its embassy.

What do you need?

Who needs what

Visa free 81

Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.

eVisa (electronic visa) 44

A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.

Visa required 73

You must apply and be approved before you travel. Airlines will refuse to board you without it.

About Ukraine

Region
Eastern Europe
Capital
Kyiv
Population
38,980,376 2025 · 40th of 197
Size
603,500 km² 44th largest of 199
Density
65 per km²
Language
Ukrainian
Currency
Ukrainian hryvnia UAH

Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.