2018 in Ukraine
# 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 [ru], footballer (b. 1944).
   * Mykola Rushkovskyi [uk], actor (b. 1925).
   * Vasyl Zakharchenko [uk], writer (b. 1936).
* 6 December –
   * Ivan Hladush, police officer and politician, Minister of Internal Affairs (b. 1929).
   * Mykhailo Yunak [ru], sambist, USSR champion (b. 1946).
