The tram market declined somewhat in 2025 compared with 2023 and 2024, and deliveries of used rolling stock largely sustained the market.
Out of the 73 tramcars delivered to Ukrainian cities last year, 58 were used and 15 were new ones purchased with budget funds and through cooperation with international financial institutions, the CFTS portal reports, citing Alltransua.
Most of the used tramcars were Swiss vehicles delivered to Lviv (including the remainder of the Vevey Be 4/8 tramcars donated by Basel, as well as the Schindler Be 4/8 tramcars from the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft) and Vinnytsia (including Tram 2000 tramcars from Zurich).
The trams delivered to Lviv were already equipped with low-floor access. Vinnytsia received fully high-floor trams, which the city retrofitted with low-floor sections based on a design from Zurich. Kharkiv received 10 used Tatra tramcars and their modernized versions from the Czech towns of Plzeň and Brno.
Tatra-Yug produced all the new trams delivered in 2025. The company completed the delivery of K1T306 tramcars to Odesa (seven of which were financed by international financial institutions) and eight to Kyiv (financed with budget funds). Notably, the batch of tramcars delivered to Kyiv differed from the previous ones in terms of door configuration. As a result, there are now three known variants of the K1T306 model.
Unfortunately, Ukraine lost one tram system in 2025, when the last remaining tram network in the government-controlled part of the Donetsk region was shut down in Druzhkivka. Russian shelling severely damaged the tram’s power infrastructure, and, as the front line slowly approached, the authorities decided not to restore it.
There was no renewal of tram or trolleybus rolling stock in the occupied territories in 2025.
In the coming year, tram deliveries will continue under existing agreements with international financial institutions, including deliveries to Dnipro and Kamianske. In addition, the delivery of used Schindler tramcars to Lviv will be completed.
