Ukrainians in Lithuania
| Total population | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14,168 0.5% of the Lithuanian population | ||||
| Regions with significant populations | ||||
| Vilnius, Klaipėda, Visaginas, Kaunas | ||||
| Languages | ||||
| Russian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian | ||||
| Religion | ||||
| Ukrainian Catholic, Ukrainian Orthodox | ||||
| Related ethnic groups | ||||
| Ukrainians, Slavic Peoples especially East Slavs | ||||
The Ukrainians in Lithuania (Ukrainian: Українці, romanized: Ukraintsi; Lithuanian: Ukrainiečiai) numbered 14,168 persons at the 2021 Lithuanian census, and at 0.5% of the total population of Lithuania (approximately 2,810,761). The Ukrainian national minority in Lithuania has deep historical and cultural relations. Many prominent figures of Ukraine such as Taras Shevchenko, Meletius Smotrytsky, Yakiv Holovatsky, St. Yosafat (in the world — Ivan Kuntsevich, a religious figure of Greco-Catholic church canonized in 1967) and others stayed and created in Lithuania.