{"id":1083422,"date":"2022-05-11T07:58:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T07:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/11\/ukraines-first-president-kravchuk-dies-at-88\/"},"modified":"2022-05-11T07:58:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T07:58:59","slug":"ukraines-first-president-kravchuk-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/11\/ukraines-first-president-kravchuk-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s First President Kravchuk Dies At 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s first president Leonid Kravchuk, who agreed to give up his country\u2019s Soviet nuclear arsenal, the third-largest in the world, died on Tuesday, the presidency said. He was 88.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSad news and a great loss,\u201d presidential aide Andriy Yermak said on Telegram, describing him as \u201ca wise patriot of Ukraine, a truly historical figure in gaining our independence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A Soviet functionary who championed independence in the early 1990s, Kravchuk was elected in 1991 after the country declared independence from the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Telegram, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko paid tribute to Kravchuk, who served as president from 1991 to 1994, hailing him for his \u201ctalent, a strong character and knowledge\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s first president Leonid Kravchuk, who agreed to give up his country\u2019s Soviet nuclear arsenal, the third-largest in the world, died on Tuesday, the presidency said. He was 88. \u201cSad news and a great loss,\u201d presidential aide Andriy Yermak said on Telegram, describing him as \u201ca wise patriot of Ukraine, a truly historical figure in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[862,12971,275,12972],"class_list":["post-1083422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-dies","tag-kravchuk","tag-president","tag-ukraines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}