1. Kievan Rus' (9th-12th centuries)
- Varangians (862-1054)
- Rurik Dynasty (862-1240)
2. Golden Horde (13th-15th centuries)
- Batu Khan (1236-1255)
- Berke Khan (1257-1266)
- Mamai (1361-1380)
3. Grand Duchy of Lithuania (14th-16th centuries)
- Algirdas (1345-1377)
- Jogaila (1377-1434)
- Vytautas the Great (1392-1430)
4. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (16th-18th centuries)
- Sigismund I the Old (1506-1548)
- Sigismund II Augustus (1548-1572)
- Stephan Báthory (1576-1586)
5. Russian Empire (18th-20th centuries)
- Catherine the Great (1762-1796)
- Alexander I (1801-1825)
- Nicholas I (1825-1855)
- Alexander II (1855-1881)
- Nicholas II (1894-1917)
6. Ukrainian People's Republic (1917-1920)
- Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1917-1918)
- Symon Petliura (1919-1920)
7. Soviet Union (1922-1991)
- Joseph Stalin (1924-1953)
- Nikita Khrushchev (1953-1964)
- Leonid Brezhnev (1964-1982)
- Yuri Andropov (1982-1984)
- Konstantin Chernenko (1984-1985)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-1991)
8. Independent Ukraine (1991-Present)
- Leonid Kravchuk (1991-1994)
- Leonid Kuchma (1994-2005)
- Viktor Yushchenko (2005-2010)
- Viktor Yanukovych (2010-2014)
- Petro Poroshenko (2014-2019)
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy (2019-Present)