Highway M03 (Ukraine)


Highway M03 is a Ukrainian international highway connecting Kiev with Dovzhansky on the border with Russia, where it continues into Russia as the A270. It is part of European route E40 from Kiev to Debaltseve at which it is part of European route E50 to the border with Russia. At, the M03 is the longest international state highway in Ukraine.
In Soviet times the M03 was part of the M19. Today, the highway stretches through five oblasts and ends at the border checkpoint at Dovzhansky which is part of Sverdlovsk Raion. The route connects Kiev and Kharkiv with the industrial region of Donbass. Part of the M03 between Kiev and Boryspil was reconstructed into an automagistral to handle higher traffic between Kiev and the Boryspil International Airport.
From Boryspil to Lubny, the road is a dual carriageway, thereon it continues as a single carriageway with some 2x2 sections.
Significant armed conflict has occurred on or near the eastern portions of the highway during the War in Donbass.

Kiev - Boryspil

Kiev - Boryspil auto-magistrale is the better kept motorway in Ukraine. It provides direct access from Kiev to the Boryspil International Airport. Its traffic passing ability amasses to 40,000 vehicle per day. It has length of with maximum allowable speed at. The motorway is part of the M03 that stretches from Kiev to the Russo–Ukrainian border at the Dovzhansky border checkpoint.

Route

Marker, kmMain settlementsNotesHighway Interchanges
0 kmKiev/ • • • •
18 kmBoryspil
Poltava •
Lyubotyn
Kharkiv
Sloviansk
Debaltseve/
844.2 kmDovzhansky / Border A270