Ethnic Georgians in Ukraine number around 34,199.
Notable Georgians that lived/worked in Ukraine includes famous poet Davit Guramishvili, Mikheil Saakashvili, who was the governor of the Odesa Oblast from May 2015 until November 2016, and Georgiy Gongadze, a journalist and film director who was kidnapped and murdered in September 2000 near Kyiv.