Online Casinos in Ukraine

Ukraine Licenses Online Casino Play

Ukraine regulates online casino play under the Law of Ukraine on state regulation of activities regarding the organisation and conduct of gambling games, No. 768-IX of 14 July 2020. The Law determines the legal basis for state regulation of economic activity in the gambling sphere, and it stands in a consolidated text most recently amended by Law No. 4574-IX of 21 August 2025.

Five kinds of gambling activity may be organised and conducted on Ukrainian territory: casino games in casino gambling establishments, casino games on the internet, bookmaking in betting shops and on the internet, gambling in slot machine halls, and poker on the internet. Any of them may be conducted only where the business entity holds the relevant licence provided for by the Law, and only using equipment and operator online systems that are certified and connected to the State Online Monitoring System. Any other gambling activity is forbidden.

For online casino, the activity is carried out by a licensed organiser of casino gambling games on the internet, which must use its own online system, and which may offer only the casino games the Law defines, through the website entered in the register.

The Regulator Is PlayCity, Not KRAIL

Law No. 768-IX assigns licensing, registry-keeping, supervision and enforcement to a body it calls the Authorised Body, which it defines as the central executive body implementing state policy in the sphere of the organisation and conduct of gambling games and in the lottery sphere. That body is the State Agency of Ukraine PlayCity, whose Statute was approved by Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 505 of 2 May 2025.

PlayCity replaced the Commission for the Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries, KRAIL, which had regulated the market since the 2020 Law. Law No. 4116-IX of 4 December 2024 directed the Cabinet of Ministers to liquidate KRAIL, and required KRAIL to hand over its documents, reports and the databases behind its registers by 1 April 2025. Licences and premises permits KRAIL had issued, and that were valid on the day that Law took effect, continue to run for the term for which they were issued, so the change of regulator did not reset the market.

The registers of licensed organisers, including the register of organisers of casino gambling games on the internet, are open to free public access and are published on the regulator's official website.

Licence Term, Cost and Player Age

An online casino licence is issued by the regulator for five years, and the fee for it is 6,500 minimum wages. Only a natural person who has reached the age of 21 on the date of participation may be a player, and an operator must prevent anyone under 21, and anyone entered in the register of persons whose access to gambling establishments or participation in gambling is restricted, both from playing and from opening a personal account.

The Law also bars an operator from giving a player any bonus payment, gift, goods or services in any form, or using any other kind of inducement, where it is granted directly or indirectly because the player lost the game.

Unlicensed Sites Are Blocked and Payments Refused

Where PlayCity establishes that gambling is being organised, conducted or made accessible without the relevant licence through a website or mobile app that is not recorded in the registers, that finding is the ground for a decision to restrict access to it. Electronic communications providers must restrict access within three working days of being notified by the national electronic communications regulator, and banks and other payment service providers must refuse payments in favour of persons organising or conducting unlicensed gambling in Ukraine or providing access to it.

PlayCity publishes its own list of signs that a gambling site may be illegal in Ukraine. The first of them is that the casino states it holds a licence from another jurisdiction, with Curaçao and Anjouan given as examples. A licence held elsewhere is treated by the Ukrainian regulator as a warning sign, not as a substitute for a Ukrainian licence.

Wartime Limits

Two restrictions tied to the war are visible in the primary texts. Gambling may not be conducted and gambling establishments may not be sited on the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine. Separately, for the duration of the martial law introduced by Presidential Decree No. 64/2022 of 24 February 2022, electronic communications providers must restrict access to websites used to organise or conduct gambling, or to give access to it, without the relevant licence, on the basis of an order of the national centre for operational and technical management of Ukraine's electronic communications networks issued at the request of the gambling authority.

Sweepstakes Casinos

No Ukrainian primary source read for this page addresses the dual-currency sweepstakes model, which is a different product from a real-money casino and is not a licensed alternative to one. Ukraine's sweepstakes position is therefore recorded as not tracked rather than asserted in either direction.

Currency

The currency is the hryvnia, which the Constitution of Ukraine names as the monetary unit of the state.