1918 Overthrow of Hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropadsky
100 years ago, on December 14, 1918, in Kyiv, the troops of the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic overthrew the power of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky. The hetman himself on that day signed a manifesto on renunciation of power and fled to Germany along with the German troops leaving Ukraine. The Manifesto said: “I, the Hetman of all Ukraine, have been exerting strength for seven and a half months to get the region out of the difficult situation in which it is.