Driving
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Driving to Ukraine
Through Hungary (EU)
You will need to buy a sticker to use the motorways. Stickers are available for usually 2 weeks, 1 month or 1 year. There are no tolls on the roads in Hungary. The directions are well placed and easy to follow but going through Budapest can be lengthy. About 100 km before the border crossing Chop, the motorway ends but the road from there is in good condition. Fuel prices in Hungary are the same as in other EU countries. At the border in Chop there is efficient passport and customs control. You need a valid passport and the technical passport of your car.
Through Slovakia (EU)
You will need to buy a sticker to use the motorways here too. There are fewer motorways and you need to drive through narrow, twisting mountain roads so the trip can feel longer. Fuel prices are the same as in other EU countries. The directions are good so you won’t get lost. The border crossing Uzhgorod is usually busy and there are long waiting times. All cars are checked as there is no separate lane for EU cars.
Through Poland (EU)
You don’t need to buy a motorway sticker when entering Poland but you will have to stop and pay toll at the booths. They do not accept credit cards but you can pay with Euro. There are very good roads and motorways. The queues at the border with Ukraine are ok if you are entering Ukraine. We, however, recently experienced a very, very long wait to go from Ukraine to Poland and hadn’t we cheated in the queue and talked to one of the guards into preferential treatment, we could have spent ten hours there. With these mitigating circumstances it ‘only’ took us five hours to get through. The recommended border crossing is Przemysl which has a good road to Lvov, from Lvov you can continue to Rovne and further to Kiev.
Distances
| Kiev - Uzhgorod |
820 km |
| Kiev - Lvov |
550 km |
| Kiev - Amsterdam |
2092 km |
| Kiev - Berlin |
1381 km |
| Kiev - Brussels |
2104 km |
| Kiev - Budapest |
1091 km |
| Kiev - Paris |
2398 km |
| Kiev - Prague |
1386 km |
| Kiev - Rome |
2310 km |
| Kiev - Stockholm |
1977 km |
| Kiev - Warsaw |
791 km |
| Kiev - Vienna |
1298 km |
Driving in Ukraine
General rules
Have your documents in order and with you while you're driving. To go around Ukraine by car you'll have to purchase an environmental ticket when you cross the border. To drive somebody else's car you will need to get the authorization letter which can be done quickly at a notary office. The roads in Ukraine aren't the best ones. Coming to Ukraine by car is not a problem if you have all documents for the car and visa if needed.
Speed limits
town - 60 kph
open road - 90 kph/ 110 kph
motorway - 130 kph
Petrol prices
95 petrol - approx. 4.50 - 5.00 UAH per litre
Parking in Kiev
Your car can get towed away - especially in the city center, so park wisely. The fine is 125 UAH, on Khreshatyk the fine is double.
When you get stopped
In Ukraine there is zero tolerance for drink and drive. If you do drink and drive (why would you do that?) and get stopped you can try to get away with a bribe of 100 USD. With speed the standard is 20 UAH if it is 20-30 km more, and 30 UAH - for other. 50 UAH is a large fine - only if you start to quarrel or they chase you on the streets :-)
Distances from Kiev to major cities of Ukraine
| Kiev - Cherkassy |
201 km |
| Kiev - Dnepropetrovsk |
479 km |
| Kiev - Donetsk |
729 km |
| Kiev - Ivano Frankovsk |
599 km |
| Kiev - Kharkov |
487 km |
| Kiev - Lvov |
544 km |
| Kiev - Lugansk |
836 km |
| Kiev - Nikolaev |
517 km |
| Kiev - Odesa |
480 km |
| Kiev - Poltava |
343 km |
| Kiev - Simferopol |
852 km |
| Kiev - Ternopil |
465 km |
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