Vehicle registration plates of Ukraine

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Since the declaration of Ukraine's independence in 1991, the country has used four main systems of vehicle registration plates. The first system was introduced in 1992. Its design was based on the 1977 Soviet license plate design standard, which was still in widespread use when the USSR collapsed. However, a new regional suffix was added, corresponding to a Ukrainian province. In 1993, the left-hand side of the plate was modified with the addition of the national flag over the country code "UA". 1995 saw the introduction of a completely new system consisting of five digits, with a dash between the third and fourth digit, combined with a two letter suffix. It also included a two-digit region code, situated under the National Flag on the left-hand side of the plate. In order to enable drivers to their vehicle abroad, and in order to adhere to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, regular Ukrainian license plates only use Cyrillic characters with glyphs that resemble a letter from the Roman...

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