The Ministry of Justice’s registries will be taken offline over the weekend for software updates
Restrictions will affect the ministry’s unified and state registries
The Unified and state registers under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine will be temporarily unavailable. Scheduled maintenance will begin today, October 23, 2026, at 22:00, and continue until 08:00 on October 26, 2026. According to nais.gov.ua.
The state-owned enterprise “National Information Systems” explained that scheduled software updates would be carried out during this time. The registers will be unavailable throughout the entire period.
Citizens, business representatives, and professionals who work with government databases are advised to take this downtime into account in advance when planning necessary transactions and document processing.
Access to the registers is expected to be restored once the maintenance is complete.
We previously reported:
- Residence registration will be unavailable in Mykolaiv from September 20 to 24
- The major outage is over: how Ukrainians regained access to state registers
- Marriage and birth registrations resume after a major outage
- Registry outage: restrictions on administrative services in Mykolaiv to last up to two weeks
- Russia launches large-scale cyberattack on Ukraine’s registers: operations halted as experts work to restore them





