Andrii Mykholayovych Plakhotniuk[1] (born 1 August 1975), is a Ukrainian diplomat and Ukraine's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary in Sweden since 2020.

Andrii Mykholayovych Plakhotniuk was born on 1 August 1975 in Kharkiv, then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Plachotniuk headed the Foreign Ministry's Department of Russian Threats,[3] and previously worked as a counselor at the Ukrainian Embassy in China.

Plakhotniuk's time in office has been largely marked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

In July 2022, he received the Order of the Polar Star from Foreign Minister Ann Linde following the decision of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his work in nurturing Swedish-Ukrainian relations.