2018 in Ukraine

Events in the year 2018 in Ukraine.

Incumbents

• President: Petro Poroshenko
• Prime Minister: Volodymyr Groysman

Events

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 –
  • Ivan Gereg, footballer (b. 1944).
  • Mykola Rushkovskyi, actor (b. 1925).
  • Vasyl Zakharchenko, writer (b. 1936).
• 6 December –
  • Ivan Hladush, police officer and politician, Minister of Internal Affairs (b. 1929).
  • Mykhailo Yunak, sambist, USSR champion (b. 1946).

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