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Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Макарович Кравчук, IPA: [ˈlɛ.ɔ.nʲid mɐˈka.rɔ.ʋet͡ʃ krɐu̯ˈt͡ʃuk]; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994.
Leonid Kravchuk (born January 10, 1934, Żytyń Wielki, Poland [now Velykyi Zhytyn, Ukraine]—died May 10, 2022) was the president of Ukraine from 1991 to 1994. For 30 years a Communist Party functionary, he converted to nationalist politics after the collapse of the Soviet regime.
May 10, 2022 · Leonid Kravchuk, who as the first popularly elected president of Ukraine shepherded it out of the collapse of the Soviet Union and signed off on giving up the country’s nuclear arsenal, died...
May 10, 2022 · Leonid Kravchuk, a former communist who helped sign the Soviet Union's death warrant and then served as the first president of independent Ukraine, died on Tuesday at the...
May 10, 2022 · KYIV, Ukraine — Leonid Kravchuk, who led Ukraine to independence amid the collapse of the Soviet Union and served as its first president, has died, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday. He was 88.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Leonid Kravchuk, who led Ukraine to independence during the collapse of the Soviet Union and served as its first president, died Tuesday, Ukrainian officials said. He was 88.
May 11, 2022 · Leonid Kravchuk, a onetime Communist apparatchik who became the first president of an independent Ukraine, playing a central role in the dissolution of the Soviet Union and relinquishing his...