The Delegation of the European Union toUkraine (specifically the Representative of the European Commission and the Representative of the European Parliament) in Kyiv are the diplomatic missions of the European Commission and the European Parliament in Ukraine. It is located at 101 Volodymyrska Street in the Darnytskyi District. The current EU ambassador to Ukraine is Slovak citizen Katarína Mathernová.
The delegation office was first opened in the center of Kyiv in September 1993 as the Delegation of the European Commission to Ukraine, and assumed its current name following the entering of the Treaty of Lisbon into force on 1 December 2009.
On 9 April 2022, Josep Borrell announced that the EU delegation to Ukraine, headed by Matti Maasikas, would return to Kyiv after it was evacuated at the outbreak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [1] The delegation building was damaged by a Russian drone strike on 28 August 2025 which hit a five-story residential building nearby and killed 23 civilians. [2] On 17 September 2025, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola opened the Parliament's antenna office co-located inside the delegation office, the third liaison office of the Parliament outside of the European Union. [3]
Name (and country) | Portrait | Term begin | Term end | President | Notes |
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Luis Moreno Abati | September 1993 | 1997 | Jacques Delors | [4] [5] [6] | |
![]() | 1997 | 2001 | Jacques Santer/ | [7] | |
![]() | 2001 | 2004 | Romano Prodi | [7] | |
![]() | 2004 | September 2008 | José Manuel Barroso | ||
![]() | September 2008 | September 2012 | José Manuel Barroso | [8] [9] | |
![]() | ![]() | 2012 | July 2016 | José Manuel Barroso/ | [10] |
![]() | July 2016 | 2019 | Jean-Claude Juncker | ||
![]() | ![]() | September 2019 | 2023 | Jean-Claude Juncker | [11] [12] [13] |
![]() | September 2024 | present | Ursula von der Leyen |