2009 dialing plan

On 14 October 2009,

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

switched to the dialing conventions common in the European Union. In order to call abroad, users need to dial 00 before the country code. For instance, to call

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, Canada, from

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

, users dial 00 1

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xxx xxxx. Calling nationwide requires dialing 0 and then the region code followed by the local number. For instance, to call Kyiv from Odesa, users dial 0 44 xxx xxxx. The same convention was adopted for mobile operators. For local calls, users can still dial the local number without a 0 and the area code. Mobile users must dial the full 0-prefixed number, although operators may implement local dialing in cities. The in-country sequence for ordinary zones consists of a 2-digit zone code, an optional subzone code (never used for the capital of the geographic region corresponding to a phone zone), an optional filler (0 to 2 "2"s, used to make the whole in-country sequence contain exactly 9 digits) and the local phone number (5 to 7 digits). When dialing from cell phones, the in-country dial sequence (with the 0 XX prefix) is used even for phones of the same provider. Otherwise a call may be placed in the nearest geographic area. Area codes correspond to geographic regions ("oblasts") with exception of Kyiv and formerly

Sevastopol Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...

which utilize their own area code. See

Area codes in Ukraine Country Code: +380 International Call Prefix: 0~0 Trunk Prefix: 0~ Zone 3 31 – Zakarpattia Oblast *31(2) – Uzhorod *312 – Chop *3131 – Mukacheve *3132 – Rakhiv *3133 – Svalyava *3134 – Tyachiv *3135 – Velykyy Bereznyy *313 ...

for current list. Cell phone numbers can be assigned both within the cell phone provider zone and within a geographic zone. The latter arrangement is used mainly for CDMA phones and for GSM operators selling their connectivity within one city, like GoldenTelecom GSM. Allocation of new GSM cell phone numbers within a geographic zone is very rare now because law requires all incoming calls to be free, including incoming calls to a cell phone. Some examples of dialed sequences: xxx-xx-xx (two PSTN phones within

, local number is 7 digits long) 050 xxx-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile not roaming or PSTN phone to

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, cell phone provider) 067 xxx-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile not roaming or PSTN phone to

Kyivstar Kyivstar ( uk, Київстар) is a Ukrainian telecommunications company, providing communication services and data transmission based on a broad range of fixed and mobile technologies, including 4G (LTE) in Ukraine. The Kyivstar mobile netw ...

, cell phone provider) 0800 xxx-xxx (from any Ukraine mobile not roaming or PSTN phone to

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number) 044 xxx-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile not roaming or PSTN phone outside the

phone zone to Kyiv) 045 94x-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile not roaming or PSTN phone outside the

Brovary Brovary ( uk, Бровари, , yi, בראָוואַר, Brovar) is a city in Kyiv Oblast (Region) in northern Ukraine, an eastern suburb of the country's capital, Kyiv. It is the administrative centre of Brovary Raion (district). Brovary h ...

region phone zone to Brovary) 046 xxx-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile not roaming or PSTN phone outside the

Chernihiv Chernihiv ( uk, Черні́гів, , russian: Черни́гов, ; pl, Czernihów, ; la, Czernihovia), is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within ...

phone zone to Chernihiv) 032 2xx-xx-xx (from any Ukraine mobile not roaming or PSTN phone outside the

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

phone zone to Lviv; the local number is 6 digits long, so "2" is used as a filler to make the whole in-country dial sequence 9 digits long) 00 ... (mobile or fixed international call from Ukraine) +380 44 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 45 94x-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 48 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

Odesa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrati ...

) +380 48 2xx-xx-xx (international call to 6-digit numbers in

) +380 32 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 32 2xx-xx-xx (international call to 6-digit numbers in

) +380 50 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 66 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 95 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 99 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 63 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

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) +380 73 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 93 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 67 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 68 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 96 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 97 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 98 xxx-xx-xx (international call to

) +380 91 xxx-xx-xx (international call to 3mob) +380 92 xxx-xx-xx (international call to PEOPLEnet) +380 94 xxx-xx-xx (international call to Intertelecom) Some mobile operators may support additional dialing plans. For example, Kyivstar also supports the following: xxx-xx-xx (local number at current location of Kyivstar mobile - i.e. if the mobile is currently in

this will represent a Kyiv number) 67-xxx-xx-xx (call from Kyivstar subscriber to Kyivstar subscriber) Note that law explicitly prohibits trunk calls to a PSTN phone within the same local area in a geographic phone zone (e.g. from Kyiv to Kyiv), so one cannot dial 0~2 or 0~xx for this, unless the phone exchange is misconfigured or a special circumstance occurs. The switch to a closed numbering plan, which will introduce seven digit-long numbers for all zones, should be complete in 2011-2012. Notice, that when using older non-digital extensions for the inter-city, international calls as well as the calls made to the national mobile and sip-numbers, it may be necessary to wait for a continuous dial tone after the first 0. This applies to the old-style rotary phones (as opposed to modern digital dial phones). For example, to call a Chernihiv local landline number from Kyiv, one needs to dial 0, wait for a dial tone, then dial 46 (Chernivtsi regional code) and then dial the local number in that city. Similarly, when calling Vancouver, Canada, one needs to dial 0, wait for the dial tone, dial another 0 to access international line, then dial 1 (for Canada and the USA), followed by 778 (one of the area codes for British Columbia), followed by the 7-digit local number. Due to the last digit of the country code (+380) being identical to the trunk prefix (0), international format numbers are often mistakenly presented as +38 0..., e.g. as in the (fictional) Kyiv number +38 044 555 1234, because people tend to mistakenly think that the last digit of the country code and the trunk prefix are the same number just being swapped around. +38 belonged to

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

before its disintegration in the early 1990s, and the +38 code was broken up and distributed amongst the former republics. +380 went to Ukraine, which previously used the +7 code.

Previous dialing plan

Ukraine (similarly to most of ex-

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countries) used to have a four-level (local, zone, country, international) open dialing plan. For all non-local numbers, the required trunk prefix was '8' followed by an auxiliary

dial tone A dial tone is a telephony Signaling (telecommunication), signal sent by a telephone exchange or private branch exchange (PBX) to a terminating device, such as a telephone, when an off-hook condition is detected. It indicates that the exchange is ...

after it (optional on digital exchanges), with the following '2' for in-zone calls, followed by an area code, and '10' for international calls.

Russian invasion

Following the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

, the Russian-backed separatist regions of the

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: Names of European cities in different languages (C–D), cities' alternat ...

Luhansk Luhansk (, ; uk, Луганськ, ), also known as Lugansk (, ; russian: Луганск, ), is a city in what is internationally recognised as Ukraine, although it is administered by Russia as capital of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR). A ...

and

Kherson Kherson (, ) is a port city of Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers appr ...

people's republics have been issued with the Russian telephone code (+7).

References

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{{Telephone numbers in Europe

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2009 dialing plan

Previous dialing plan

Russian invasion

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