Ukraine introduces new telephone dialling rules

On October 14 2009, some major changes are being made to calling codes for telephone calls made within the Ukraine.

For landline calls within Ukraine there will be no need to dial 8 before the number. Under the new system, users should just dial the area code followed by the number. For example to call Kharkiv from Kiev just dial 057-xxxxxxx. Under the old system the telephone number was 8-057-xxxxxxx.

The codes for making international telephone calls from Ukraine have also changed. Users should now dial 00-country code-area code-xxxxxx). Previously calls overseas were made by dialling 8-10-country code-area code-xxxxxx).

The changes bring Ukraine’s dialling rules in line with those found in the European Union.

No changes have been made to the rules for dialling Ukraine from abroad.

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