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Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born to Jewish parents on 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. [24] [25] [26] His father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy, is a professor and computer scientist and the head of the Department of Cybernetics and Computing Hardware at the Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology; his mother, Rymma Zelenska, is a ...
Early presidential elections were held on 25 May 2014 and won by Petro Poroshenko; Poroshenko was inaugurated as the fifth president on 7 June 2014. On 18 June 2015, Yanukovych was officially deprived of the title of President of Ukraine. [2] The sixth and current president is Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who defeated Poroshenko in the 2019 ...
On 5 July 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR passed a law establishing the post of the "President of the Ukrainian SSR". The title was changed to "President of Ukraine" upon the proclamation of independence on 24 August 1991, simultaneously making then-Speaker of the parliament Leonid Kravchuk acting president.
As Russia moves ahead with its invasion of Ukraine, eyes are on Volodymyr Zelensky, who was elected in 2019 after finding fame as a comedian.
The president of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Президент України, romanized: Prezydent Ukrainy, pronounced [prezeˈdɛnt ʊkrɐˈjine]) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations , administers the foreign political activity of the state, conducts negotiations and concludes international ...
Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko[a][b] (born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman [8][9] and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko served as the minister of foreign affairs from 2009 to 2010, and as the minister of trade and economic development in 2012. From 2007 until 2012, he headed the ...
Vitali is a friend of former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and the two have played, with Kramnik always winning. Klitschko has commented that "chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart.
On 28 March, Denys Kirilyuk , a Ukrainian pilot, was killed when his Su-27 fighter aircraft was hit in the air by a Russian Shahed 136 (Geran-2) drone. [75] On 31 March, Vitaly Merinov, four-time world champion in kickboxing, died during the battle of Bakhmut. [76] Ukrainian Parliamentarian Oleh Barna killed in Vuhledar