Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine’s first president, died at the age of 88, according to Kyiv officials.
Antonina Kravchuk, Leonid Kravchuk’s spouse, his son, and two grandkids, Mariia Kravchuk and Andrii Kravchuk, survive him.
Kravchuk’s death was announced on Telegram by Andriy Yermak, the head of current President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office.
Leonid Kravchuk grandchildren: Mariia Kravchuk, Andrii Kravchuk
Leonid’s grandchildren are outraged and saddened by his untimely death.
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk was born in 1934 to an ethnic Ukrainian peasant family in the village of Velykyi Zhytyn.
The village was part of Poland at the time (Second Polish Republic).
After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, when Kravchuk was a kid, it became part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
During the 1930s, his father served in the Polish army, and afterwards, he and his wife worked for the local osadniks.
Kravchuk’s father died on the front lines during World War II.
In 1957, Kravchuk married Antonina Mykhailivna Mishura, a mathematics teacher.
