Ukraine–Vietnam relations

The 2001 Ukrainian census counted 4,000 Vietnamese people.[7] As of 2022, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are approximately 7,000 Vietnamese in Ukraine.[8][9] Ukrainians regard the Vietnamese community positively, based on historical commonality and the legacy of Soviet influence between two.[10] The Vietnamese community also serves as a bridge connecting Vietnamese populations in other Slavic nations such as Poland, Russia, and Czechia, where large Vietnamese diasporas exist.

In 1985, the Soviet Union signed an agreement with Vietnam to allow gifted Vietnamese students to study or work in the country. This led to the formation of Vietnamese communities in the former Soviet Union, the largest of which are in Kharkiv, Odesa, and Kyiv.[7] Notably, billionaire Phạm Nhật Vượng lived in Kharkiv during the 1990s.

As of 2016, approximately 2,000 Ukrainians in total are estimated to live in Vietnam, including 120 people in the consular register of the Embassy of Ukraine in Vietnam.[11]

In Vietnam there are neither organizations of Ukrainian community, nor religious communities of immigrants from Ukraine, partly due to its large distance and lack of interests.

The vast majority of Ukrainians in Vietnam are labor migrants. They mainly consider their stay in Vietnam as temporary and plan to return home after labor contracts with employers conclude.[11] Ukrainian citizens work in the fields of tourism, trade, maritime transport, coal and petroleum, and a small number of them are engaged in business. A small number of Ukrainians belong to mixed Ukrainian-Vietnamese families.

Ukrainian citizens are most numerous in the cities of Nha Trang (about 100 people), Vũng Tàu (about 100), Hanoi (about 50), and Ho Chi Minh (50).