2002 in Ukraine

Incumbents

• President: Leonid Kuchma
• Prime Minister: Anatoliy Kinakh, Viktor Yanukovych

Events

• 27 July – A Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 piloted by Volodymyr Toponar and co-piloted by Yuriy Yegorov crashed during an aerobatics presentation at Sknyliv airfield near Lviv, killing 77 people and injured 543, 100 of whom were hospitalized, making it the deadliest air show accident in history.

Deaths

• Nikolai Amosov, medical doctor
• Valeriy Lobanovskyi, football player and manager
• George Shevelov, linguist