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The Mariinskyi Palace, official residence of the president of Ukraine, in July 2018. The president of Ukraine is the head of state of Ukraine, directly elected to a five-year term by voting eligible citizens of Ukraine. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian People's Republic was formed after the Russian Revolution of 1917, and lasted until the Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Russia in March 1921. The state leadership position title varied and, despite a rather widespread misconception, none of them had an official Presidential title.
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych [b] (born 9 July 1950) is a Ukrainian (until 2014) and Russian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. [4] He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2006 to 2010.
Attacks on Feb. 24, 2022, began before dawn in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, and other cities. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed the invasion was to protect Russian-speakers in Ukraine.
And so life seemed to imitate art in 2019 when Zelensky, capitalizing on his celebrity, won the actual Ukrainian presidency (his party is called Servant of the People) in a landslide, with more ...
Tensions between the US and Ukraine over ending the war with Russia continue to grow as the White House claimed Donald Trump was “very frustrated” with Volodymyr Zelensky.. In an extraordinary ...
Petro Poroshenko was born on 26 September 1965, into an ethnic Ukrainian family in Bolhrad, a primarily Bulgarian town in Ukraine's southwestern Odesa Oblast.Poroshenko's father Oleksiy Poroshenko [de; uk; ru] (1936–2020), [9] was an engineer and later a government official who managed multiple factories in the Ukrainian SSR.
U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2025.