[1] On 24 April 2010, it was renamed Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and elected boxer Vitali Klitschko as its leader, following its participation in the Vitali Klitschko Bloc (Ukrainian: Блок Віталія Кличка, Russian: Блок Виталия Кличко), during the 2008 Kyiv local election.

[24] In this election UDAR did compete as an independent party again, but only in 15 single-mandate constituencies and it failed to win any seats.

[31][34] The party officially became Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR) of Vitali Klitschko mid-July 2010.

[35] During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections the party won about 400 representatives in municipalities and Oblast Councils (regional parliaments).

According to information gained by the German magazine DER SPIEGEL, the target was to "set up Klitschko purposefully as a new strong man in Kiew - in order to counter this way the Kremlin's growing influence".

[48] UDAR did not join the Dictatorship Resistance Committee; but on 22 January 2012 it did sign an agreement on joint actions with that alliance.

[49] Starting in March 2010 the party's popularity in opinion polls reached a level almost twice as high as the election threshold (which was raised to 5% in November 2011[50]).

[56] After a successful application the European People's Party started on 5 April 2012 the process of making UDAR an observer member of the organization.

[62] Support for UDAR was the least diversified at the regional level compared with the results of the other leading parties.

[65] In late December 2012 UDAR and the United National Movement from Georgia signed a cooperation agreement.

[14][nb 2] Party leader Klitschko confirmed on 28 February 2014 that he would take part in the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election(, this also ended the May 2013 agreement to coordinate with Batkivshchyna and Svoboda).

[78] On 15 September it became clear that 30% of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc election list would be filled by members of UDAR and that UDAR leader Vitali Klitschko is at the top of this list, Klitschko vowed not to resign as incumbent Mayor of Kyiv.

[26][82] The party's most successful candidate was Yuriy Solovei [uk] who won 14.83% of the votes in constituency 89 located in Sniatyn (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast).

[86] UDAR tends to avoid sensitive and polarising subjects and focuses instead on popular topics, such as more empowerment to ordinary Ukrainians and a ruthless campaign against corruption, the indifference of the authorities, the lack of local governance, inequality, and poverty.

[90] The party wants to combat corruption in Ukraine with more transparency and the creation of an independent anti-corruption agency.

[89][90] UDAR wants to reduce the number of state agencies in order "to minimize the interaction of the citizen with an official".

[93] The party has pledged to "reboot" the court system, and "reinforce the control of the public over elections".

[90] In June 2013, the party's parliamentary faction voted for the denunciation of the 2010 Ukrainian–Russian Naval Base for Natural Gas treaty.