Apple Pay starts service in Ukraine this week in partnership with PrivatBank.

A PrivatBank Visa or Mastercard credit or debit card should be connected via Privat24 or Wallet applications to use the new payment service. Vira Platanova, Mastercard’s Ukraine representative, told Interfax-Ukraine: “Ukraine is a very developed market in terms of contactless payments. In the world in 2017, the number of payments with a mobile phone quadrupled, and in Ukraine it increased 14 times. It is therefore not surprising that Apple Pay came to Ukraine – one of the first countries in our region.”