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First Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk died at the age of 89. The Ukrainian media inform about it.
In the summer of 2021, Kravchuk underwent heart surgery, then he was in the intensive care unit, he was connected to a ventilator. He has been rehabilitating in Germany since the autumn of the same year, with sources saying he was “successful.” Soviet leader Kravchuk on behalf of Ukraine signed Boris Yeltsin with RSFSR President end of the USSR (Shushevich also died at the age of 88 last week, Yeltsin died in 2007).
December 8, 1991. Kravchuk, Suskevich, Yeltsin. Photo: ru.wikipedia.org
He became the first president of independent Ukraine, serving from 1991 to 1994. Subsequently, he was a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada for 12 years. Since 2015, he has led the public organization “Movement for Ukraine in NATO”.
Since July 2020 & nbsp; & ndash; At the end of April 2022, the Crimean parliament announced its decision to deprive several Ukrainian politicians of republican honors, including Kravchuk.
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Ukraine's first president, Leonid, had died. Kravchuk: archival images
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