This article will be of interest primarily to foreign citizens or people who have been abroad for a long time. We will tell you in detail how to call to Ukraine from other countries of the world.
Before asking such a question, we will find out the structure of Ukrainian phone numbers, this information will help us learn how to call to Ukraine. Telephone numbers in a given country can be 5 or 7 digits. Basically, cities with a population of up to 500 thousand people have five-digit or six-digit numbers, and "millionaires" have seven-digit numbers. It all depends on the number of residents in the city and the numbering capacity of each telephone exchange. So, for example, the city of Irpin, in which 40 thousand inhabitants, has 5 digits of a telephone number, and for the capital of Ukraine (Kiev) this number will not be enough.
Recently in Ukraine, as of 10/14/2009, a reform was adopted to change the rules for dialing numbers, but it did not concern calls to the country.
It often happens that people do not indicate numbers with an international code, not realizing that they can be called from other countries. For example, they write like this: 11-22-33 444-000-000. Or it happens that some organization indicates two contact numbers with 5th or 7th characters without a code. Because of this, it’s sometimes difficult to guess whether it’s a city number or a mobile number. Six-digit numbers are often used in regional centers of Ukraine . To find out which regional center the number belongs to, you can using the directory of telephone codes of Ukraine. In order to facilitate calls throughout the country, we recommend that you immediately paint the number in international format. Here it is: +380 (where +, the mandatory prefix for making calls to another country from mobile and stationary devices), the next 3-4 digits can be the code of a mobile operator or city.
In order to know which mobile operator you are calling, check out the directory of codes for mobile operators in Ukraine. In order to know how to call to Ukraine from a mobile phone, dial + 38050 and press the call button. You can also call by dialing the country code + city code + five- or seven-digit subscriber number, for example: + 38044 (Kiev).
You may also need to call from Ukraine. In this case, you will immediately have a question about how to call from Ukraine to Russia. To do this, dial the number in the international format: + country code (+7) + city code + subscriber number. Small notes: +38 - the international country code (Ukraine), +7 - the international country code (Russia), 050,066,099 - the code of one of the most common mobile operators in Ukraine - MTS. 903, 905 - the code of one of the most common mobile operators in Russia - Beeline. In Ukraine, the numbers of mobile operators have already been changed, now they began to look like this: 066xxxxxxxx (without the number 8).
With the help of this article you can easily and without problems answer the following question: "How to call to Ukraine". We also hope that the information received will enable you to act correctly when making calls to Russia from Ukraine. In addition, a big advantage when calling from Ukraine is a unified system of mobile operators. There are only three of them in the country. You do not have to constantly think about how to call to Russia from Ukraine, and check which region you are in, so that you do not get into roaming by calling.