Getting a mandate from Ukrainians is an art! The data is shocking

In 2025, speed cameras captured 120,000. offenses committed by drivers of cars from outside the European Union. More than half of them were kidnapped by drivers in cars with Ukrainian registration. They were issued only 2.5 thousand. Penalty tickets.

“In the case of vehicles registered outside the European Union, including in Ukraine, it is not possible to determine the owner of the vehicle due to the lack of international agreements in this regard,” explains the Chief Inspectorate of Road Transport (GIDT) in Rzeczpospolita.

Mandate for a foreigner. Poland is helpless

In 2025, there were over 1.3 million violations on Polish roads. Speed ​​cameras detected 120,000. offenses committed by drivers of cars from outside the European Union. According to Rzeczpospolita, it’s about 20,000. more than a year earlier and 31.5 thousand more than in 2023.

77.2 thousand were committed by car drivers from Ukraine. Cars with Belarusian registration plates were caught by speed cameras 7.4 thousand times. times, and those with Russian ones – 218 times.

Instead of 120,000 fines, foreigners were issued only… 3,443 fines. 2.5 thousand tickets went to Ukrainian citizens, 42 to Belarusian citizens, and zero tickets to Russian citizens.

Speed ​​cameras protect foreigners – how can you track them?

Why doesn’t GIDT punish the perpetrators – foreigners? It hides behind the lack of international agreements. Only those whom inspectors find on the road during direct inspections are caught. They then check the driver in the CPD CANARD system and have the option of imposing a cash fine.

There are most cars with Ukrainian registration on Polish roads, and yet Poland does not have direct access to the Ukrainian central vehicle database as part of its official systems (e.g. in the CEPiK system there is no automatic access to Ukrainian registers).

Cars from Ukraine are still not subject to Polish technical inspection – also due to lack of regulations. The draft law proposes that a car must be registered on Polish plates one year from the date of crossing the border. It would also be obligatory to purchase Polish third party liability insurance. Ukrainian law does not require technical inspections for passenger cars.