Ukraine license plate: Military

Issued today 2004 to today. Military plates for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, and machine, issued by Міністерство внутрішніх справ України / Головний сервісний центр МВС (ГСЦ МВС). One of 37 Ukraine license plates.

Ukraine license plate, Military (2004 to today), sample 4820 W9

Format, years and the law

Format
9999 L9, for example 4820 W9 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Deliberately opaque: the armed forces determine the serial's information content themselves, no region is encoded, and the letter may come from anywhere in the Ukrainian alphabet, the black plate is the one Ukrainian serial with no public decode.

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
2004 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Military: armed-forces registration systems. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, and machine.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
Size
520 × 112 mm · every country's size
About this plate
ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE and the military counter-intelligence organs of the SBU.
About the format
Додаток 2 Таблиця 4 gives type 9 five digits and one letter. The arrangement, four digits of running number, then a letter-plus-digit series, is not stated in the Вимоги; it is the Ukrainian Wikipedia article's description and is tagged as such in sources.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Додаток 1 тип 9 «Знаки для всіх типів автомобілів, автомобільних причепів, автобусів, самохідних машин та механізмів Збройних Сил України, а також тих, які належать органам військової контррозвідки Служби безпеки... https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0353-21
  2. ДСТУ 4278:2004 «Чинний від 2004-02-20», Таблиця 2 (types 9, 10) and Таблиця 4 (type 9: 5 digits, 1 letter), verbatim reproduction of the national standard; the official text is behind ДП «УкрНДНЦ». http://www.infocar.com.ua/law_ukr/law_22.html
  3. https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Номерні_знаки_України https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Номерні_знаки_України

This plate in your app

The series id is ua-military. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Ukraine's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ua \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ua-military")'