the first president of ukraine, leonid makarovych kravchuk, died today. he was not just a politician and he was not even just a historical figure, he was the kind of person who knew how to find wise words and say them so that all ukrainians could hear them, especially in difficult crises moments when he can leave the future of an entire country to the wisdom of one person. leonid makarovych showed just such wisdom at the end of the 1980s. when the ukrainian movement was emerging, he passed the 91st year brilliantly, and it can only now look as if it was easy for him then and not to be later leonid kravchuk always stayed with ukraine, perhaps thanks to his wisdom, he was especially cheerful, always appreciated life every minute, but also always found more than one minute away to help figure it out, to give advice, and in particular for i am personally grateful to him. he survived the second world war as a child, survived the occupation. leonid makarovych knew what freedom was worth and wanted peace for ukraine with all his heart. i am sure we will realize

six candidates were included in the ballots, the fiercest struggle was between kravchuk and chernovol, leonid makarovych won with the support of 61%." to the people of ukraine and she was also the first. kravchuk had not yet taken the oath on the peresopnytsk gospel , he kept his right hand on his heart and his left hand on the constitution of the ukrainian ssr , which was adopted much later, as much as 5 years later, they did not hand over the guarantor to anya, there were any seals, but they simply congratulated this historical photo from the tribune and hangs on a ukrainian house today, on the day of the burial, the 91st year, the moment of the oath of leonid kravchuk he was certainly worried, but not that he would become the president. i think his team and he himself were convinced that it would happen, that's why they were sad. today in the ukrainian house, there was no bell, silence, the guard of honor, a bunch of flowers in front of the coffin, kravchuk's state awards, almost everyone for his outstanding contribution to the formation and the development of independence he has the title of hero of

independent ukraine, the first president, politician, economist and hero of ukraine is leonid makarovych kravchukresponsibility to regain glory, regain courage, regain faith that ukraine will continue its risks that started it on this holy land leonid kravchuk began his political career in the 60s of the last century in the communist party in august 1991. he left the benches of the communist party of ukraine until the first hundreds of ukrainian demonstrators gathered in front of the parliament require the deputies to accept the act of independence of ukraine from the parliamentarians, leonid makarovych, who then chaired the council, expected this, what do you need to consult, i want to ask you and how long can you consult, because every deputy today has such a time that he should have, please vote , it was after this that the history of independent ukraine kravchuk went to the first presidential elections as a non-party, then leonid makarovych won in the first round with 60% in favor and became the first president of independent ukraine, i solemnly swear to the people of ukraine when exercising

with great state celebrations said goodbye to the first president of independent ukraine, leonid makarovych kravchukd on may 10 after a long illness. leonid kravchuk was the last of the trio of politicians from russia and belarus and ukraine, who were named the belovezhskaya trinity for the adoption in december 1991 of the agreement on the dissolution of the soviet union, to say goodbye to leonid makarovy the current president zelensky and all his successors in the post of president came, with the exception of one who was deprived of this status, the ceremony came in a ukrainian house and was buried of the first president at the legendary cemetery in kyiv , as christians and non- christians say in such cases rest with god leonid makarovych, the first president of independent ukraine, and that's all we have time to tell you today, more history, in particular, current information about events at the front, can be found on our website bbc.ua this is the 83rd day of the russian invasion of ukraine, on the day when the azov residents stopped their resistance and fulfilled the order of the command to save

inscription, if it was from you, i would write like this, i did a lot, but not everything, e.e., leonid makarovych kravchuk. thank you, volodymyr tzibulku, for the brevity , such e. portnikov about kravchuk because he knew him personally and wrote that he would no longer deceive anyone in russia, that he masterfully knew how to do it, to soften his eyes and to do what he needs such an opinion, and we will go further even economically . thank you, mr. chivulka. that he is alive because volodymyr tsybulko also experienced the occupation himself. so where is this happening in the kyiv region? well, they wrote to us that it was a village, they were asking if. that is correct, because whoever writes is close to us as a guest , so we are very glad that mr. tsybulko has returned to us, volodymyr our onion is unchanged expert political scientist eh, more to come eric nyman , economist, financial analyst well, it should be at least we are recruiting, i am reading the latest information. in the morning of may 11, the russian occupiers launched rocket attacks on the city of slovyansk, donetsk region , according to pr

will talk more about his role in the modern history of ukraine, but now the fact remains, leonid makarovych kravchuk eternal memory, mr. serhiy i congratulate you, i congratulate you , so we will start talking about the military results of the day , and here we will start with the historical document signed by joseph biden, the lend-lease law, what does it mean in our military sense, how quickly this the law will begin to act in the confrontation with russia. well, in fact, this is a really historic step, and i perceive that the langlist law is actually a law about victory over russia, because the prerequisites that are being created now are extremely optimistic, because the us president will get the opportunity to quickly provide military aid to ukraine. that is, all procedures regarding the transfer of military equipment for our country, which is, of course, extremely important, but the list of weapons can be any and it will be determined on the basis of agreements between by our proposals and the ability of the united states to provide them, it is also important that logistical capabilities and o

i found myself here in a whole small song of birds on the death of leonid makarovych kravchuk, you quitebly have a slightly different opinion, uh, how much would you like to say in connection with his death? well, there is probably such a ukrainian tradition about people who left for a better world says either well or nothing, but i am convinced that historians will definitely give an assessment of the actions of the first president of ukraine and when i want this news about the death of course, the historical personality and the person who became the creator of the restoration has passed away independence of ukraine, but probably the first comparison that came to me is the monument to nikita khrushchev, do you remember the sculptor ernest neizvestny, who made half white and half black, because if we are talking about the restoration of ukraine's independence, it is of course the white story of leonid makarovich kravchuk, if we are talking about the scandal with the blazkom concern, do you remember this story of the inexplicable disappearance of one of the most powerful fleets that were

continued on the air to remember the first president of ukraine, who passed into eternity, and leonid makarovych kravchukresented, led our delegation in this same tripartite contact group and tried to find peace er more ukraine and russia, how do you assess his contribution to this, well, you know, i can't say that he did something wrong or that he didn't do something, that he could have done there, the fact is that, in principle, anyone in kravchuk's place would hardly be able to solve anything because the problem in these negotiations, the problem in donbas in general, it was that russia, in principle, also needed a war, russia did not want to go from there, and they demanded from ukraine its own capitulation due to defeat, due to the intransigence of the ukrainian side, we saw this already full-scale conflict, that is, it is also that this is exactly the kind of compulsion to capitulate, but already with all the forces that are in russia, therefore, taking into account that the goals were such, i think that no ukrainian representative, be it kravchuk or anyone else, would agree to capitulation and, ac

i think they talked about leonid makarovych kravchuk's postyk, i'll remind you that today on 89- that year, the first president of independent ukraine, leonid kravchuk, literally survived a little . after all, they elected some new lukashenka , and after all, there were attempts to start kuchma. we also remember that. well, but uh, it's probably just the ukrainian people through ukraine. without kuchma and everything else , i adjusted him a little and he remained more- the least numbered person so far in this country. well, let's move on , let's talk a little more about the usual military topics and, er, we are in touch with serhiy grabsky, a reserve colonel of grabsky, a participant in peacekeeping missions in cancer and kosovo, a military officer expert mr. sergey good evening good evening mr. sergey it is the second day in a row and the third day in a row we have very good news from the kharkiv area itself, where ukraine is developing a counteroffensive, how much is it? what is important is that this counteroffensive is there. of course, many people, public opinion, we every day we

thing about which today i want to finish this address today the first president of ukraine leonid makarovych kravchukjust a politician and not even just a historical figure , he was the person who knew how to find wise words and say them so that they were heard all ukrainians are especially important in difficult crisis moments when the future of the entire country can depend on the wisdom of one person. leonid makarovych showed just such wisdom at the end of the 1980s, when he appeared he brilliantly passed the 91st year of the ukrainian movement, and it can only now look as if it was easy for him then and so that it wouldn't happen later leonid kravchuk always remained with ukraine, perhaps thanks to his wisdom, he was especially cheerful, always appreciated life every minute of it, but also he always found more than one minute to help me figure it out and to give advice, and in particular, i am personally grateful to him for that. he survived the second world war as a child, survived the occupation, leonid makarovich knew the price of freedom and wanted with all his heart for peace of ukraine i am

leonid kravchuk died at the age of 89. i am asking for a biography of leonid makarovych of statehood. so , for the first time, i encountered kravchuk at one of the meetings of the initiative group for the creation of the people's movement of ukraine in the writers' union, and it so happened that he was sitting next to me. and oleksandr lukyanenko, the writer, was speaking on the podium, and kravchuk asked , he said this lukyanenko and i joked, i say no . this is not him yet, when he comes to the podium, he will be very scary for you. well, we can say that kravchuk is really a weatherman, a person who had quite good political intuition and knew how to take risks in his own way after all, for me, for example, this period of august 19-204, 2001, when kravchuk was simply interrogating these soviet generals, but when kyivska street supported independence and he was simply able to take advantage of this and listen to the position of the people's council of the then patriotic bloc, is important to me to the verkhovna rada of the first convocation, and in fact he became one of the creators of

president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyy said in the address noted that leonid makarovych stayed with ukraine no matter what, then leonid kravchukays stayed with ukraine, perhaps thanks to his wisdom, he was particularly cheerful, always valued life for every minute of it, but also always found more than one minute away to help figure things out, to give advice and in particular for this i am personally grateful to him the first president was born on january 10, 1934 in the village of velyki zhityn of the rivne district at that time these ukrainian lands were under the rule of poland having obtained an accounting education in kravchuk moved to the rivne cooperative technical college, moved to the capital, graduated from the state university, became a teacher of social sciences, joined the communist party and successfully built a political career from an ideologue of the communist regime to a politician of independent ukraine. indeed, he became one of the creators of independence . in the post-soviet space, such an ideological , uh, democratizing leadership, because ukraine looked like such an anti-imperial force that actually pu

38 six candidates were included in the ballots, the fiercest struggle was between kravchuk and chernovol, leonid makarovychsupport of 61%." at the same time, he followed his line even though we had our own candidate - he was from the people's movement of ukraine , vyacheslav chornovil, but it was such a situation that the representative of the national democratic forces could not win then leonid makarovych on society was still deeply in this communist consciousness, the inauguration after the election i solemnly swear to the people of ukraine

will stretch to the steps in front of the ukrainian house to say goodbye to kravchuk, eh, well, they will bury leonid makarovyche fairy-tale cemetery, as the media wrote earlier, next to the grave of eh, another outstanding ukrainian, the hero of ukraine, yukhym zvyginsky, do you remember this coal baron, and also next to by the grave of the captain of the former dynamo kyiv valentyn belkevych, who passed away at a young enough age to leonid makarovych. thank you, this is the first president who has passed away . he is a historical figure only because his signature was on this document that actually testified to the collapse of the soviet union. they were signed by the president of russia and the chairman of the parliament of the republic of belarus, stanislav sushkevich, who also gave his soul to god just a few weeks ago. this is how ukrainian history goes. into eternity and this already our independent history, the history of independent ukraine right now ukrainians continue to write it and unfortunately now it is being written in blood podolyak said that the negotiations are at a standstill for reasons sever

leonid makarovych disappeared during his childhood. he even mentioned the fact that the first snow he walked barefoot. after graduating from school, leonid kravchuk entered a cooperative technical school in rivne, then continued his studies in he studied well in kyiv, he studied here, he doesn't forget, he doesn't forget, he doesn't forget, he doesn't forget, he doesn't forget , he comes often, he's a good person, let's say to the soul, men, a very good person, oksana tuz, valery martyniuk, news on the public implementation of sanctions against russian energy carriers , a meeting of foreign ministers of eu member states was held there the day before, leba called for as soon as possible implement the sixth package of sanctions and grant ukraine the status of a candidate for eu membership, the representatives of the partner countries promised to continue to help ukraine, including financially earlier the high representative of the eu for foreign policy issues, jose borel, announced that ukraine will receive half a billion euros for military expenses only for ukraine, including military support. i will inform you that we in the european union will p

first president of ukraine, leonid kravchuk, was 89 years old, the speaker of the verkhovna rada, ruslan stefanchuk, announced the infamous news. last year, leonid makarovychon to he was in intensive care for a long time, but there were no details about his health, president volodymyr zelenskyi noted that kravchuk was not just a politician and more than everything wanted peace for the country, he was the kind of person who knew how to find wise words and say them so that all ukrainians could hear them, this is especially important in difficult crisis moments when the future of the entire country can depend on the wisdom of one person. leonid makarovych showed just such wisdom at the end of the 1980s when the ukrainian movement was born, it passed the 91st year brilliantly, and it can only now look as if it was easy for him then and so that it would not happen later leonid kravchuk always remained with ukraine, perhaps thanks to his of wisdom, he was especially cheerful, always appreciated life every minute of it, but always found more than one minute far away to help figure it out and to give advice, and in particular, i am personally grateful to him for t

ideologues of the soviet union, at the same time it was kravchuk who put an end to his history to him was not just remembered by colleagues, but leonid makarovych had a phenomenal intuition and sense of currents in society, so he knew that only an independent ukraine was ahead, the past must be done with . at first, he was still the chairman of the verkhovna rada together with the parliament votes for the independence of ukraine, despite the fact that the majority in the parliament are communists, few people know, but the very next day after that, russia makes a statement that it reserves the right to claim the territorial integrity of ukraine, sends a delegation to kyiv, but is rebuffed, on december 1, a referendum is held on independence and at the same time presidential elections, and in a week in the bialowieza forest, the newly elected president kravchuk signs the collapse of the union, when i fear he pushed us, we will say so he said some version of the treaty on the soviet union. i can't sign it because the people recruited me. how is the leader of independent ukraine kravchuk a ukrainian, the leader of kravchuk a communist , independenc

constantly pressed leonid makarovych to subordinate the black sea fleet to the entire -e ukraine as an independent state and as a fleet based on ukrainian territory and all kravchuk was take such a step two days later yeltsin duplicated his similar decree that the black sea fleet is subordinate to the russian federation and from there a conflict has already arisen and and this other yes literally already after the declaration of independence it all started already it turned out that uh what is this not so fluffy and white well it was all a game and look then not only this this is me an example from our relations with the russian federation and eh they incited what they are doing and to this day this conflict in moldova was created and this transnistrian moldavian transnistrian republic was created, and mykhailo kosiv went there again to see with his own eyes and report to the verkhovna rada they are the first such conflict where, but the first where russia openly took part absolutely, and look, i said that we had such hopes, even then, right after the adoption of the declaration and the act of independence , such, well, they were breaking through, we wanted to ha

was launched by kravchuk, he committed himself to this completely on the best monuments for every president is the state of the state of ukraine. i am very sorry that leonid makarovych live to see our victory. i thank the armed forces of ukraine under this hashtag is the start of a project in which every ukrainian can send a picture or a letter to ukrainian defenders. you can do this at any branch of ukrposhta. all children's drawings and postcards with words of support will be given to military personnel, hot spots, fighters , medics, and rescuers across the country. 500 drawings from digitize the funds received from the sale will go to the implementation of a kindergarten project in chernihiv oblast the smallest drawing of a fox even from a stranger who writes that he believes in you as a soldier as a warrior and believes in our victory, this is like another bc, like 100 cartridges for the machine gun, and every guy who is at the front receiving this postcard is motivated, well, probably more than uh, you can motivate yourself with some new camouflage or some new unloading or something else that uh, despite the fact that, well, a lot of things were missing, especi