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Lviv (Львів)
Lviv (Львів; Lwów, Lemberg), western Ukraine's largest city (717,273 in 2022), founded mid-13th century by Danylo Romanovych; UNESCO World Heritage historic center since 1998, on the in-danger list since 2023.
Makiyivka
Makiyivka (Макіївка, Russian Makeevka), industrial city in Donetsk oblast, Ukraine, near Donetsk; major coal-mining and metallurgical center, pop 351,820 (2014), under Donetsk People's Republic occupation since 2014.
Mariupol (Маріуполь)
Mariupol (Маріуполь) is a port city on the Sea of Azov in southeastern Ukraine, once a leading shipping center, which has been under Russian occupation since May 2022.
Melitopol (Мелітополь)
Melitopol (Мелітополь), formerly Novoaleksandrovka, is a city of about 150,000 in southern Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia oblast, a rail junction on the Molochna River occupied by Russia since 2022.
Minsk (Мінск)
Minsk (Мінск, Минск), capital of Belarus on the Svislach river; first recorded 11th century as Menesk, Magdeburg law 1499, Russian annexation 1793, Byelorussian SSR capital, about 2,010,000 residents.
Mukachevo
Mukachevo (Мукачево, Hungarian Munkács) is a city on the Latorica River in Zakarpattia Oblast, western Ukraine; second-largest in the region, dominated by Palanok Castle, a former Jewish Hasidic center, and a transport hub.
Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv (Миколаїв), southern Ukrainian city at the Boh-Inhul confluence, capital of Mykolaiv oblast; founded 1789 as a shipyard, major shipbuilding and port center, held through the 2022 invasion and regained piped water in 2025.
Odesa (Одеса)
Odesa (Одеса), Ukraine's third-largest city and main Black Sea port, founded 1794 by Catherine II on the Ottoman fortress site of Khadzhybei; a free port 1819–1859, a 19th-century grain-export and multiethnic hub, now a UNESCO endangered World Heritage site sustaining wartime grain trade.
Pereiaslav (Переяслав)
Pereiaslav (Переяслав, 1943–2019 Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi) is a Kyiv-oblast city on the Trubizh, a Kievan Rus' principality capital, site of the 1654 Cossack Council, and a museum town with Ukraine's first skansen.
Poltava
Poltava (Полтава) is a Ukrainian city on the Vorskla River, administrative center of Poltava oblast, first recorded as Ltava in 1174 and famous for the 1709 battle where Peter I defeated Charles XII.
Rivne, Rivne Oblast
Rivne (Рівне, formerly Rovno) is a city of about 245,000 in northwestern Ukraine on the Ustia River and the administrative center of Rivne Oblast; first recorded in 1282, a railway junction, and capital of Reichskommissariat Ukraine 1941–1944.
Slavutych (Славутич)
Slavutych (Славутич), the last planned Soviet city, was built from 1986 for Chornobyl NPP workers after the disaster, with districts by eight republics; population about 20,000-24,000.
Sumy
Sumy (Суми), city in northeastern Ukraine, capital of Sumy Oblast on the Psel River; founded 1652/1655 by Kondratiev's settlers, former Cossack regiment center, sugar-industry hub, Hero City (2025), heavily attacked since 2022.
Ternopil
Ternopil (Тернопіль, formerly Tarnopol) is a city in western Ukraine on the Seret River, capital of Ternopil oblast. Founded in 1540 by Jan Tarnowski, ruled by Austria, Poland, and the USSR, population about 217,000 in 2012.
Tiraspol (Тираспол)
Tiraspol (Тираспол), founded 1792 by Suvorov, is the de facto capital of unrecognized Transnistria in eastern Moldova on the Dniester's left bank; about 128,000 people, dominated by the Sheriff conglomerate and hit by the 2025 Russian gas cutoff.
Uzhhorod (Ужгород)
Uzhhorod (Ужгород, Hungarian Ungvár) is the capital of Ukraine's Zakarpattia oblast on the Uzh River, the westernmost and only EU-bordering regional center, with about 115,000 official residents, Uzhhorod National University, and a history under Hungarian, Drugeth, Czechoslovak, and Soviet rule.
Vinnytsia (Вінниця)
Vinnytsia (Вінниця) is a city on the Southern Bug River in west-central Ukraine, administrative center of Vinnytsia oblast since 1932, founded 1363, population about 369,000, repeatedly ranked Ukraine's most comfortable city.
Yalta (Ялта)
Yalta (Ялта) is a resort city on Crimea's southern shore, administrative center of Greater Yalta (pop. 74,652 in 2021). Known for its Mediterranean climate, Livadia Palace and the 1945 Yalta Conference, Massandra wines, and tourism collapse under wartime conditions since 2026.
Zaporizhzhia (Запоріжжя)
Zaporizhzhia (Запоріжжя), also spelled Zaporizhia, is a large industrial city in southeastern Ukraine on the Dnipro River, founded as the fortress Oleksandrivsk in 1770 and renamed in 1921.
Zhytomyr (Житомир)
Zhytomyr (Житомир) is a city on the Teteriv River in northern Ukraine, administrative center of Zhytomyr oblast, about 130 km west of Kyiv. First recorded in 1240, granted Magdeburg law in 1444, Volhynia gubernia capital from 1804, birthplace of rocket engineer Sergei Korolov.