(10 May 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
WTN
ARCHIVE: Kyiv - 10 July 1994
1. Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk voting
2. Mid of press
3. Kravchuk surrounded by journalists
4. Kravchuk speaking
WTN
ARCHIVE: Kyiv - 15 June 1994
5. Wide of Ukrainian Parliament
6. Kravchuk's nominee for Ukrainian Prime Minister Vitaliy Masol speaking
7. Kravchuk listening
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv - 23 April 2007
8. Wide shot former Kravchuk paging through a book
9. Close up of of book
10. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Leonid Kravchuk, former president of Ukraine
++speaking of Boris Yeltsin++
"He was one of the main participants in the process of dismantling the empire that was called the Soviet Union. So his name, as well as those of the other signatories to the Belaya Vezha (Belarus) agreements, are associated with the start of a new epoch."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Moscow, Russia - November 1991
11. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Kravchuk signing the Union Treaty
STORYLINE:
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.
Andriy Yermak, head of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, confirmed Kravchuk’s death on the social media app Telegram without giving details of the circumstances.
Kravchuk had been in poor health and underwent a heart operation last year.
Kravchuk led Ukraine as its Communist Party boss in the waning years of the Soviet Union, and played a pivotal role in the demise of the USSR before holding the Ukrainian presidency from 1991 through 1994.
He was a driving force in Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and later that year joined leaders of Russia and Belarus to sign an agreement on December 8, 1991, which formally declared that the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
As president Kravchuk agreed to transfer remaining Soviet nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory to Russian control in a deal backed by the United States.
He lost the 1994 presidential election to former prime minister Leonid Kuchma.
In 2020 he returned to politics to try to negotiate a settlement as part of a “contact group” for the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where Russia-backed separatists had fought Ukrainian forces since 2014.
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