TheDelegation of the European Union toUkraine (specifically theRepresentative of the European Commission and theRepresentative of the European Parliament) inKyiv are thediplomatic missions of theEuropean Commission and theEuropean Parliament inUkraine. It is located at 101 Volodymyrska Street in theHolosiivskyi 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 theTreaty of Lisbon into force on 1 December 2009.
On 9 April 2022,Josep Borrell announced that the EU delegation to Ukraine, headed byMatti Maasikas, would return to Kyiv after it was evacuated at the outbreak of theRussian 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 ParliamentPresidentRoberta 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |