Ukraine hosts extensive strata containing plant and algal fossils. Owing to their location on southern flank of Laurasia, Ukrainian fossiliferous deposits potentially play an important role, not only in local biostratigraphy, but also in understanding climate changes and biogeographic interchange between Europe, Africa, northern Asia, India and the Cimmerian terranes of the Mesozoic Tethys. However, much of the past work in Ukraine has been little recognized in western scientific literature, partly owing to language bariers and difficulties accessing provincial literature. Of particular note are past studies on the following fossil assemblages and regions: the Ediacaran biotas in the Dniester River area of western Ukraine; Silurian and Early Devonian plants and nematophytes from Podolia, western Ukraine; extensive Carboniferous floras associated with the coals of the Donbas region; the little-studied early Permian flora from the western Donets Basin; the rich but relatively little-known Triassic flora on the Donets Basin; Middle Jurassic palynofloras from the Dnieper–Donets Basin; Early Cretaceous megaspores and other sporomorphs from southern Ukraine; late Albian leaf and wood floras from the Kaniv area, central Ukraine; Late Cretaceous floras from western Ukraine and adjacent areas of Poland; Miocene–Pliocene macro- and palynofloras from shallow deposits of the Ukrainian Plain that are helping to build palaeoclimatic and marine incursion models for the Central and the Eastern Paratethys region; late Pliocene permineralized woods from Transcarpathian region in southwestern Ukraine; and extensive Quaternary palynofloras for studies of forest-steppe fluctuation over the past 2 million years.Ukraine has 21 major herbaria (78 in total) with >116 staff and about 4.8 million specimens. As of May, 2022, many of these are in conflict zones directly impacted by the Russian invasion. Of note, the CWU herbarium at Karazin University in Kharkiv has been damaged and the contents require urgent protection. Ukraine also hosts major palaeontological collections that are now threatened: particularly, the National Science and Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, and the National Museum of Natural History, Lviv. Staff at many of Ukraine’s museums have been busy hiding art and collections in basements, returning loans, loaning material abroad for safekeeping, and reopening the museums as bomb shelters. To support Ukrainian science and culture, funding was provided by the Swedish Royal Academy, Swedish Research Council, Swedish Strategic Fund and Collegium Palynologicum Scandinavicum for four Ukrainian palynologists to attend the 11th EPPC, and for several others to submit poster presentations. We welcome our Ukrainian colleagues to the conference.