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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.
On 22 August 1992, the last President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile Mykolva Plaviuk transferred his authorities to the first post-Soviet president Leonid Kravchuk. Non-partisan, without support or independent People's Union "Our Ukraine" Party of Regions All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity" Servant ...
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.
On Wednesday, Zelensky will meet with President Biden in the Oval Office, then address a joint session of Congress. He will likely receive more standing ovations than any other foreign dignitary ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, gather for a meeting on September 27, 2024 in New York City.
A number of foreign leaders have visited Ukraine during the Russian invasion, meeting with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and other officials, and visiting areas around the country. This list only includes heads of state and government that visited Ukraine while serving as the head of state or government.
The president is directly elected by the citizens of Ukraine for a five-year term of office (whether the presidential election is early or scheduled), limited to two terms consecutively. [3] The president's official residence is the Mariinskyi Palace, located in the Pechersk district of the capital Kyiv.
Zelensky became a household name in 2022 following a meteoric rise from comedian to president in 2019 to global icon in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine early this year.