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The first president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk died
The first president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk died on May 10 after a long illness. This was reported by the Ukrainian News Agency with reference to the source with the family.
On June 29, 2021, Kravchuk missed the solemn meeting of the Rada on the occasion of the Constitution Day due to heart surgery. After surgery, the head of the tripartite contact group was placed in intensive care and connected to the apparatus of artificial ventilation of the lungs.
In January, Kravchuk turned 88 years old.
Kravchuk - Soviet and Ukrainian party, state and politician. He was the president of Ukraine in 1991-1994. From 1994 to 2006-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada.
On behalf of Ukraine, Kravchuk, on December 8, 1991, signed with the President of the RSFSR Yeltsin and the chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus Shushkevich Belovezhsky agreements on the termination of the existence of the USSR.