The infrastructure and economy ministries signed a memorandum on 27 October 2026 with Bolt, Uklon, Uber and OPTI. It is meant to stop fares in Kyiv rising without a limit during an air-raid alert, a stoppage of public transport, including the metro, or another logistics emergency in the capital. The ceiling is 75% above the base fare.
Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi wrote on Telegram that a trip priced at 200 hryvnias in ordinary conditions, with no alert and no jam, could be charged at no more than 350 hryvnias, and a base fare of 300 hryvnias at no more than 525 hryvnias. Those figures are his examples. Passengers can still choose a price, within that ceiling. The limit runs for at least two hours after the all-clear of a red-level alert, or until public transport is back to normal and traffic is moving across the bridges. Demand is often highest then, when people are trying to get home. The agreement was drawn up to avoid a repeat of that day, after an attack on the Southern Bridge. The operators are expected to act responsibly, other firms are invited to join, and the government will watch how the rules are carried out.
No check and no penalty
Oleksandr Diachenko, head of the department for internal road transport at the Ministry for Development of Communities and Territories, told Ukrainian Radio on 30 October 2026 that the memorandum is a voluntary move by the operators, so there is no monitoring and no penalty. The operators proposed the 75% mark themselves, after talks with the ministry. The compromise is meant to keep drivers willing to work in difficult conditions, including air-raid alerts and jams, and to avoid creating unjustified and unnecessary expectations among drivers.
The deal is a compromise between business and the state. If it does not work, the two sides will meet again and draw up measures that fit. Any firm in the market may join. The state has no legal means to regulate taxi prices. The ministry is preparing a taxi bill to put before the government, to bring 172,000 taxi drivers into the legal framework. The share already working inside that framework is very small. The aim is that those drivers work safely.
Two days later
LIGA.net reported on 3 November 2026 that prices on some routes had almost doubled two days after the signing, that the agreement is voluntary and the means of checking it are unclear, and that capping market prices could leave fewer cars available and push work into the shadow economy.