2018 in Ukraine
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Incumbents
Events
June
C14 (Ukrainian group) gained international notoriety after reports it was being involved in violent attacks on Romany camps.[1][2]
November
December
- The Ukrainian Orthodox Church becomes independent.[3]
Deaths
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- 14 January – Lidiia Hryhorchuk, linguist, linguogeographer, dialectologist, paleographer, art critic, professor and a doctor of philology (b. 1926).[4]
- 18 January – Borys Yukhymovych Steklyar, military officer (b. 1923).[5]
- 27 January – Iryna Horoshko, choreographer and dancer (b. 1953).[6]
- 31 January – Leonid Kadeniuk, pilot and astronaut (b. 1951).[7]
- 10 February – Myroslav Popovych, philosopher (b. 1930)
- 14 February – Pyotr Bochek, military officer (b. 1925)
- 5 March – Mykhaylo Chemberzhi, composer (b. 1944).[8]
- 28 March – Kateryna Boloshkevich, weaver and statesperson (b. 1939).[9]
- 18 April – Grigory Gamarnik, wrestler (b. 1929).[10]
- 2 May – Vadim Mulerman, singer (b. 1938)
- 6 June – Kira Muratova, film director, screenwriter and actress (b. 1934).[11]
- 19 June – Ivan Drach, poet, screenwriter and politician, member of Verkhovna Rada (b. 1936).[12]
- 7 July – Levko Lukyanenko, politician (b. 1928).[13]
- 23 July – Oksana Shachko, artist and human rights activist, co-founder of Femen (b. 1987).[14]
- 8 August – Mikhail Shakhov, wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1931).[15]
- 1 September – Mykola Shytyuk, historian (b. 1953).[16]
- 14 October – Valeriy Shmarov, politician, Minister of Defence (b. 1945).[citation needed]
- 4 November – Kateryna Handziuk, politician (b. 1985).[17]
- 25 November – Viktor Kanevskyi, footballer (b. 1936).[18]
- 29 November – Viktor Matviyenko, football player and manager, Olympic bronze medalist (b. 1948).[19]
- 5 December –
- 6 December –
- Ivan Hladush, police officer and politician, Minister of Internal Affairs (b. 1929).[23]
- Mykhailo Yunak, sambist, USSR champion (b. 1946).[24]