Dating in Ukraine — letters, live chat and video calls

What dating here means in practice

AnnaBrides is a place to get to know one woman in Ukraine, or nearby, slowly and properly. Around 1,200 women have profiles on the site as of September 2026 — most of them in Ukraine, in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Dnipro, Odesa and Lviv, with smaller groups in Poland, Kazakhstan and elsewhere. Their profiles are public: you can read them in full, watch the video introductions many have recorded, and narrow the gallery down by age and city before you ever create an account. For the everyday context behind what those profiles say — how people meet and what family means in a profile — start with our guide to the context behind Ukrainian profiles.

It is not a swipe app, it does not sell introductions, and nobody here is "for sale". You write, she answers, and what happens next is between you. The full mechanics — profiles, letters, chat, video and credits — are on the how it works page. Before you pay anyone, us included, it is worth knowing what to look at on any site of this kind before paying for a letter.

Why letters, and not a swipe

Most men who come to a site like this are in their forties, fifties or sixties, and most of them are here because a hundred five-second matches is not what they want. A letter lets you say who you are in your own words, and lets her answer in hers. There is no timer and no character limit. Reading her replies is free; sending a letter costs a fixed number of credits, listed openly on the pricing page.

Language: what actually happens

English here ranges from fluent to a few careful sentences. Nobody can tell you in advance which you will meet, so ask her early how she would rather talk, and write plainly meanwhile: short sentences, no slang, no irony in the first letters. This is the most common question people have before they pay for a letter, and the honest answer is that it depends on the person. When you want to know for certain who you are talking to, ask for a video call: the site has them built in, and the video dating page explains how to make the first one easy.

If you are writing from the United States, Canada or the UK

Nothing on the site depends on where you are, but a few practical things do. Kyiv is seven hours ahead of New York, ten ahead of Los Angeles and two ahead of London, so a letter written in your evening is read over her morning coffee, and a live chat or a call needs a time agreed in advance. Prices are in US dollars whatever your card's currency; your bank converts. Support answers in English, usually within one working day. For meeting in person, readers in Europe have the shorter journey: a first meeting in Poland or another EU country is a train ride for her and a short flight for you, while from North America it is a long trip that deserves several video calls first.

Practical things worth knowing

Internet and electricity are not always reliable, so a missed chat or a dropped call is usually just that — give it a day before you read anything into it. People move: a listed city is where someone is from at least as often as where she is now, so ask rather than assume. And any plan to meet in person should be made with your own government's travel advice in front of you, not on the strength of a letter; meeting somewhere in the EU is often the realistic first step.

Safety, without the lecture

The rules that keep almost everyone safe on a site like this are short: never send money to someone you have not met, keep the conversation on the site until you have seen each other on video more than once, and slow down when someone speeds up. We enforce the first one structurally — there is no way to send money to a member through the site, so any request for money is a request to go around us. The dating safety guide describes the scam script in detail; the verification page says exactly what is checked about a profile and what is not.

What it costs

Joining, browsing and reading letters are free. Letters, live chat, video calls and gifts are paid for with credits that you buy in a package, once, with a card. There is no subscription and nothing renews on its own. Current package prices and the cost of each action are listed on the pricing page.

Two questions people ask first

Is it free?

Joining, browsing, searching, reading full profiles, watching the free video introductions and reading every letter you receive are free, with no time limit. Sending a letter, live chat, video calls, premium photos and videos, and gifts cost credits, bought in a package, once — nothing renews on its own and no money is taken again. A letter costs a fixed number of credits whatever its length. A membership level, which changes what those actions cost you in credits, is a one-month package: one payment for one month, and when the month ends your account returns to the free level. The exact figures and the refund rules are public, and so is what is checked about a profile and what is not.

Can I use it on a phone?

Yes. The site is built for a phone browser as much as for a computer: letters, chat and video calls all run there, with nothing to install. If someone you are writing to asks you to move to a different messaging app early on, that is a warning sign rather than a convenience — the conversation is meant to stay here.

A realistic first month

1. Look around without an account. Read profiles the way you would read a letter, not a catalogue.
2. Create a free profile with a real photograph and a few honest lines. She is deciding whether to answer you.
3. Write to two or three women whose profiles you actually read, and ask each a question she can answer.
4. When one conversation keeps going, suggest a video call. Keep the first one short.
5. Only then talk about meeting — and only after several calls.