The first President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, died at the age of 89. This is reported by the Ukrainian media.
In the summer of 2021, Kravchuk underwent heart surgery, subsequently was in intensive care, was connected to a ventilator. Since the autumn of the same year underwent rehabilitation in Germanysources in the environment reported that she was “successful.”
A Soviet party leader, Kravchuk, on behalf of Ukraine, signed with the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin and the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich the Belovezhskaya agreements on the termination of the existence of the USSR (last week also at the age of 88 years Shushkevich diedYeltsin died in 2007).
Became the first president of independent Ukraine, served from 1991 to 1994. Subsequently, for 12 years he was a people’s deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. Since 2015, he has headed the public organization Movement for Ukraine in NATO.
Since July 2020 – head of the Ukrainian delegation in the contact group for settlement in Donbass.
At the end of April 2022, the Crimean Parliament announced the decision deprive the awards of the republic several Ukrainian political figures, including Kravchuk.
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