Ukraine's parliament adopted a declaration of independence the same month. After being temporarily handed presidential powers, Kravchuk was elected president on Dec....
1, 1991, the same day as Ukrainian voters supported secession from the Soviet Union. Days later, he signed the Belovezha accords with Russian leader Boris Yeltsin and Belarusian leader Stanislav Shushkevich which effectively triggered the Soviet Union's collapse....
" I understood Ukraine could never be really independent if th
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