The first president of independent Ukraine and one of the gravediggers of the USSR, Leonid Kravchuk, died Tuesday May 10 at the age of 88 in the midst of the Russian invasion of the country, announced the mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitschko .
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A great loss for all of Ukraine.
Today, Leonid Kravchuk passed away - the first president of Ukraine, the first speaker of the Rada (Ukrainian parliament, Editor's note) and the man who founded the modern Ukrainian state
,” Vitali said. Klitschko on Telegram.
