Afro-Ukrainians

Afro-Ukrainians(Ukrainian: Афроукраїнці[1]) or Black Ukrainians are Ukrainians of Sub-Saharan African descent, including Black people who have settled in Ukraine.

In 2012, Gaitana, by then "the only Afro-Ukrainian celebrity in her country", represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest.

[2] In 2019, Zhan Beleniuk became the first Afro-Ukrainian member of the Ukrainian Parliament.

[3][4] The Ukrainian word nehr (Ukrainian: негр) is widely used and is a nativized loan word from the French: nègre, lit.

The native Slavic word for things that are actually black (e.g. a car with black paint) is chórnyy (Ukrainian: чо́рний).