oleksandr hladkyy was a regular member of the ukraine national under-21 football team and scored 6 goals in 12 games. on 22 august 2007, he made his debut for the senior ukraine national football team in a friendly against uzbekistan and scored the opening goal, his only goal in 11 matches for ukraine's senior squad. since 2007, he has been called up to the main squad by oleg blokhin and then oleksiy mykhailychenko, but has not appeared for ukraine since 2015.