{"name":"Applied AI in Ukraine — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Ukraine, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/ukraine","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Ukraine","slug":"ukraine","iso2":"UA","region":"Europe"},"counts":{"entries":30,"deployments":21,"evidenceImpact":1,"evidenceAdoption":3,"regulation":5,"industries":9,"countries":1,"linked":30},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Ukraine","role":"Air defence gunner","org":"Ukrainian Air Force","text":"Ukraine's Air Force reports robotic turrets downing jet-powered drones, Russia's Geran-5 included, with AI air defence doing the aiming. Machine vision steers each intercept and removes human error, spokesperson Yurii Ihnat explained. President Zelenskyy counted above 12 units guarding Kyiv, eight more due nearby, as drone defence automation spreads.","date":"2026-10-05","source":"https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraines-robotic-turrets-record-first-shootdowns-of-russias-jet-powered-geran-5-drones-23116"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Ukraine","role":"Defence analyst","org":"Ministry of Defence of Ukraine","text":"Ukraine's Ministry of Defence has opened its military AI assistant to everyone on the DELTA combat system, trimming web-widget help tickets by roughly 27% and shortening replies by a factor of 30. Hosted inside DELTA's protected environment, this combat-system AI helpdesk tackles routine enquiries on-screen and fields around one in four widget messages.","date":"2026-08-28","source":"https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/ai-assistant-for-delta-is-now-available-to-all-users"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Ukraine","org":"Ministry of Health of Ukraine","text":"Ukraine's Ministry of Health polled staff under the WINWIN 2030 digital development strategy: 80.5% of healthcare workers turn to AI in healthcare work, 21.6% habitually and 58.9% sporadically. Among medical professionals, 65.7% back medical AI if doctors retain the last word.","date":"2026-08-28","source":"https://my.ua/uk/news/cluster/2026-08-28-ponad-80-ukrayinskikh-medikiv-uzhe-pratsiuiut-zi-shi-rezultati-opituvannia-moz"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Ukraine","role":"Citizen","org":"Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine","text":"Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation, with Ukrainian developer Kitsoft, has added a voice-based government AI assistant feature to Diia.AI. Citizens can now speak queries and hear spoken replies instead of typing, and can switch between voice and text mid-conversation without restarting. The rollout extends this voice-enabled government AI service to make public administration accessible without typing or literacy barriers.","date":"2026-07-21","source":"https://www.biometricupdate.com/202607/ukraine-expands-diia-ai-with-voice-based-access-to-government-services"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Ukraine","org":"Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine","text":"A new panel convened by Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation held its inaugural session on 15 June 2026, tasked with producing AI regulation Ukraine can align to the EU AI Act by year's end 2026, ending the current reliance on voluntary self-regulation. Officials, business figures and civil society representatives jointly guide the resulting Ukrainian AI legislation.","date":"2026-06-15","source":"https://thedigital.gov.ua/news/shtuchnyy-intelekt/vid-samorehuliatsiyi-do-yevropeyskykh-pravyl-hotuyemo-profilnyy-zakon-pro-shtuchnyy-intelekt-v-ukrayini"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Ukraine","role":"Policy analyst","org":"Government of Ukraine","text":"Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation is trialling AI policy impact analysis, software that predicts how draft acts will shape outcomes for citizens, businesses and other groups, labelling each positive, neutral or negative. Acting minister Oleksandr Bornyakov described it as an early-stage experiment, aimed at handing officials quicker, evidence-grounded judgement than manual review offers. This AI-driven policy assessment lacks a set launch date beyond the current pilot.","date":"2026-04-20","source":"https://www.kyivpost.com/post/74338"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Ukraine","org":"National Bank of Ukraine","text":"Ukraine's central bank, the National Bank of Ukraine, launched the Discussion Paper on the Ethical and Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence by Participants of the Financial Services Market of Ukraine, opening debate on AI governance in financial services. Priorities named include shielding consumers, managing risk, keeping systems transparent and maintaining operational resilience across the sector. Officials frame this as an early move toward future sectoral guidance and a fuller White Paper, with no binding rules proposed yet under this responsible AI use in banking initiative.","date":"2026-03-30","source":"https://bank.gov.ua/ua/news/all/diskusiyniy-dokument-z-etichnogo-ta-vidpovidalnogo-vikoristannya-shtuchnogo-intelektu-uchasnikami-rinku-finansovih-poslug-ukrayini"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Ukraine","role":"Teacher","org":"Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine","text":"Ukraine's Mriya education platform now offers an AI test generator for teachers, automating assignment creation and marking to curb cheating. It draws on 1,300-plus digitised textbooks across 30 subjects and ran in 150 schools, producing over 4,000 assignments. The Ministry of Digital Transformation aims to widen this AI-based assessment tool to 500 more schools before a nationwide launch.","date":"2026-01-29","source":"https://unn.ua/en/news/in-ukraine-ai-will-evaluate-students-assignments-through-the-mriya-application"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Ukraine","role":"Learner, professional development","org":"Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine","text":"AI Mentor education platform is now live on Diia.Education, giving Ukraine's 3 million-plus users a Gemini-based virtual helper backed by Google.org. It simplifies jargon, condenses course content and produces quick summaries. An AI Guide navigator comes next, the platform's first step into broader AI-driven features.","date":"2025-12-30","source":"https://digitalstate.gov.ua/news/govtech/diiaeducation-launches-an-ai-mentor-for-personalized-learning"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Ukraine","role":"Branch operations manager","org":"Nova Poshta","text":"Every Nova Poshta outlet now gets a daily photo review under a new AI branch inspection system, examining whether staff uniforms, marketing-material placement and bin levels meet internal rules. R&D Director Yevgeniy Khomenko credited the AI-based compliance monitoring with lowering costs previously spent on senior managers travelling to sites in person, alongside gains in overall service quality.","date":"2025-11-27","source":"https://forbes.ua/news/zekonomili-na-poizdkakh-menedzheriv-nova-poshta-dovirila-perevirku-viddilen-shtuchnomu-intelektu-27112025-34462"},{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Ukraine","org":"MHP","text":"MHP, Ukraine's largest poultry producer, credits five years of AI in agribusiness with economic gains totalling millions of dollars. Taras Goshovsky put the 2025 figure alone at above $1 million, with combined earnings since the 2020 launch already well past that threshold. Sensors and predictive software now govern temperature inside poultry sheds moment by moment while guiding harvest projections across MHP's farmland, a use of machine learning in poultry farming that spans both livestock and crops.","date":"2025-11-27","source":"https://forbes.ua/ru/news/u-mkhp-rozkrili-skilki-groshey-shi-zekonomiv-kompanii-za-pyat-rokiv-27112025-34457"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Ukraine","role":"Medical student","org":"I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University","text":"I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University has deployed an AI virtual patient for medical education, Ukraine's first, built with the Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences. This AI-based virtual patient tool for clinical training tests trainees on history-taking and communication skills across paediatric, surgical and gynaecological exam stations for 2025-2026.","date":"2025-11-24","source":"https://www.tdmu.edu.ua/en/blog/2025/11/24/v-tnmu-vpershe-v-ukrayini-vprovadzheno-virtualnogo-patsiyenta-na-osnovi-shtuchnogo-intelektu/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Ukraine","org":"National Bank of Ukraine","text":"AI adoption in Ukraine's financial sector has reached 64% of institutions, per a National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) survey of 208 regulated entities including banks and insurers. Of these, 23% described their use of AI or machine-learning tools as active rather than exploratory. Regulators pointed to the figures as proof the sector has moved from experimentation towards genuine practical use, with machine learning in Ukrainian banking now a working reality.","date":"2025-11","source":"https://bank.gov.ua/en/supervision/artificial-intelligence"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Ukraine","role":"Customs officer, declarant, truck driver","org":"State Customs Service of Ukraine","text":"An AI customs bot now handles Ukraine's border traffic: the State Customs Service added a fallback tool for misread queries plus voice input so drivers and declarants can speak instead of type. Four AI-equipped mobile X-ray scanners also went live at the Poland border, widening automated border-control communication.","date":"2025-10-22","source":"https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/1114675.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Ukraine","role":"Customer service agent","org":"Epitsentr K","text":"AI customer support in retail now resolves a third of Epitsentr K's queries through an AI-driven customer service tool on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram and Viber. More than 50 self-service tools manage orders, payments and shipments without staff involvement. Ukraine's retailer aims for 70% automated coverage by 2026.","date":"2025-10","source":"https://forbes.ua/ru/innovations/klienti-perestayut-gugliti-odin-z-naybilshikh-riteyleriv-epitsentr-testue-shi-asistenta-i-golosoviy-poshuk-navishcho-i-yak-uspishno-monetizuvati-shi-03122025-34587"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Ukraine","role":"Customer support agent","org":"Sense Bank","text":"Sense Bank now runs an AI assistant for customer support built on the NovaTalks platform, pairing scripted chatbots for common enquiries with live operator backup, all linked to the bank's CRM. One system now covers contact centre calls, Viber and in-app chat, so routine messages get handled automatically rather than by staff. This omnichannel setup for AI in banking customer service pairs with a separate lending conveyor, where AI reviews documents and sets credit limits.","date":"2025-09-23","source":"https://minfin.com.ua/ua/2025/09/23/159128294/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Ukraine","role":"Job seeker","org":"State Employment Service of Ukraine","text":"Ukraine's State Employment Service now runs an AI job search tool at dcz.gov.ua/aijob, filtering vacancies by city, salary or description with keyword lookups. Applicants submit CVs for AI-driven CV screening from a homegrown system suggesting openings, still in test mode. Resumes are wiped within seconds of matching, off outside servers.","date":"2025-08-28","source":"https://tech.liga.net/ua/technology/news/na-sayti-derzhsluzhby-zayniatosti-ziavyvsia-poshuk-vakansiy-za-dopomohoiu-shi"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Ukraine","role":"State licensing expert, entrepreneur","org":"Ministry of Economy of Ukraine","text":"Ukraine's ePermit platform runs an AI veterinary licence verification module screening paperwork automatically, catching gaps before reviewers see them. Fewer applications get bounced, freeing specialists for harder cases. Built on Google DeepMind's Gemma model, funded by the EU, hosted on locked-down state servers instead of outside clouds — delivering AI-powered permit document checks nationwide.","date":"2025-08-19","source":"https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/ukraine/ministries-economy-and-digital-transformation-launch-ukraine%E2%80%99s-first-ai-powered-state-service_en"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Ukraine","role":"Nurse, ophthalmologist","org":"Zaporizhzhia Regional Clinical Hospital","text":"A CheckEye AI eye screening trial at Zaporizhzhia Regional Clinical Hospital flagged possible sight-threatening complications in one of every ten outpatients. Over two months, more than 9% showed diabetic retinopathy of differing severity, several undiagnosed diabetics. This suggests retinal AI screening can surface disease standard records miss.","date":"2025-08","source":"https://itukraine.org.ua/en/checkeye-screening-results-ai-helping-to-preserve-vision/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Ukraine","role":"Healthcare outreach worker, social worker","org":"Alliance for Public Health","text":"Over 7,000 people use TWIIN, the Alliance for Public Health's AI digital health assistant from the IAS 2025 conference. Reachable 24/7 via websites, apps and API links, it fields HIV, STI, mental-health and harm-reduction questions by spoken or written exchange. That figure is self-reported, unverified.","date":"2025-07","source":"https://aph.org.ua/en/news/ukrainian-digital-assistant-twiin-presented-at-the-ias-2025/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Ukraine","role":"Manufacturing quality controller","org":"Metinvest","text":"Metinvest Digital, the IT arm of Ukraine's Metinvest mining and metals group, now runs computer vision AI steel quality control on semi-finished slab output, catching flaws instantly and directing workers on precise cutting points. R&D centre head Maksym Balaniuk disclosed the rollout on 20 June 2025 at a gathering in Kyiv, noting the tool already operates at the firm's biggest facility. A comparable build for swifter lines moving at 5 metres per second, an AI-based defect detection setup for steel manufacturing, remains in progress.","date":"2025-06-20","source":"https://ua.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/1081500.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Ukraine","role":"E-commerce manager","org":"VARUS.UA","text":"Manual basket assembly at VARUS.UA once took 30 minutes; with Neomi, an AI grocery shopping tool, the chain's 113 outlets now finish in 1–2 minutes. This AI recipe-based shopping feature nearly doubled conversion versus ordinary browsing, per the retailer, with over 340 online orders during Neomi's opening three-week pilot.","date":"2025-06-05","source":"https://forbes.ua/innovations/konversiya-udvichi-vishcha-varus-tri-tizhni-testue-shi-produkt-startapu-neomi-shcho-avtomatichno-zbirae-produkti-za-retseptom-yaki-rezultati-17062025-30564"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Ukraine","role":"Corporate banker","org":"PrivatBank","text":"PrivatBank launched AI counterparty checks for Ukrainian business clients via the web and Privat24 for Business app. The tool scans public records — ownership, network ties, financial standing — flagging legal and reputational risks before deals close: AI business reputation screening for corporate due diligence.","date":"2025-05-28","source":"https://finclub.net/news/shtuchnyi-intelekt-pereviriatyme-dilovu-reputatsiiu-kontrahentiv-kliientiv-pryvatbanku.html"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Ukraine","org":"Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine","text":"A new scheme gives Ukraine's public workforce, from senior officials to IT staff, access to AI training for civil servants, backed jointly by the Ministry of Digital Transformation, Google and CDTO Campus. Under the banner Artificial Intelligence for the Public Sector, the free online course builds skills in responsible AI adoption in the public sector, automating repetitive work, and writing sharper prompts. The Ministry of Economy was the pilot agency, kicking off its cohort in June 2025.","date":"2025-05-19","source":"https://ai.thedigital.gov.ua/en/news/Artificial%20intelligence%20for%20civil%20servants:%20launching%20a%20series%20of%20trainings%20with%20Google"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Ukraine","org":"Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine","text":"Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers adopted the Action Plan for Implementing the Concept for the Development of Artificial Intelligence in Ukraine for 2025-2026, a binding roadmap for Ukraine AI regulation. It covers drafting an AI law, cybersecurity guidance, higher-education standards, procurement analysis tools, defence uses, and aligning domestic rules with international AI policy in Ukraine frameworks. The plan is mandatory for relevant ministries and agencies.","date":"2025-05-09","source":"https://lexinform.com.ua/zakonodavstvo/zatverdzheno-zahody-rozvytku-shtuchnogo-intelektu-na-2-roky/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Ukraine","role":"Marketplace seller","org":"OLX Ukraine","text":"Sellers on OLX Ukraine now get an AI product listing generation tool that drafts descriptions and fills in item details from nothing more than a photo and headline, starting in the Fashion & Style category. Parameter accuracy reaches 75%, and 52% of the AI-generated item descriptions need no further editing before going live. The company credits the feature with a 40% drop in manual data entry.","date":"2025-04-30","source":"https://kosht.media/olx-zapustyv-shi-dlia-stvorennia-oholoshen/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Ukraine","role":"Judge, lawyer, legal professional","org":"Supreme Court of Ukraine","text":"Ukraine's Supreme Court now uses AI legal research to scan full-text rulings and generate short legal summaries in seconds, via the new Database of Legal Positions 2.0. ChatGPT and Anthropic models power the tool after training on hundreds of prior cases, linking to the Unified State Register of Court Decisions and the E-Court System. No registration is needed, making this generative AI for case-law analysis a rare open example inside a national judiciary.","date":"2025-04-14","source":"https://uba.ua/eng/news/pravo-tekhnologi-verkhovnijj-sud-predstaviv-onovlenu-bazu-pravovikh-pozicjj-2-0-z-generativnim-sh"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Ukraine","role":"Nurse, ophthalmologist","org":"Ministry of Health of Ukraine","text":"Ukraine's Ministry of Health screened over 870 diabetes patients in Odesa and Chernihiv for AI-powered eye screening for diabetic retinopathy via CheckEye, October 2024-March 2025. Scans took under 30 seconds; 25% needed ophthalmologic follow-up, 75% did not. The pilot used automated retinopathy detection as triage, not diagnosis.","date":"2025-03","source":"https://digitalstate.gov.ua/news/tech/30-seconds-to-save-your-sight-ukraine-pilots-ai-powered-eye-screening"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Ukraine","org":"Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine","text":"Kyiv favours a phased path to AI regulation in Ukraine: self-regulation first, later a dedicated statute matching the EU AI Act. The Ministry of Digital Transformation's White Paper on Artificial Intelligence Regulation in Ukraine outlines a sandbox, conduct codes, labelling and sector advice, short of binding rules. Ukrainian AI law remains a proposal.","date":"2024-06","source":"https://ai.thedigital.gov.ua/en/vision"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Ukraine","org":"Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights","text":"Ukraine's Ombudsman office, Ministry of Digital Transformation and the EU4DigitalUA project released joint guidance on AI data protection for public bodies and companies. Officials set ethical rules for artificial intelligence privacy compliance, stressing safeguards against rights abuses, as part of the country's Roadmap for AI Regulation.","date":"2024-02-15","source":"https://thedigital.gov.ua/news/technologies/shtuchniy-intelekt-i-prava-lyudini-prezentuvali-rekomendatsii-z-vidpovidalnogo-vikoristannya-shi"}]}