Word: kravchuk
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...sharp change of position, President Leonid Kravchuk said that Ukraine may retain the 46 modern SS-24 nuclear missiles it inherited from the former Soviet Union...
Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk, in dire need of cash, has agreed to turn over his country's nuclear warheads and half-share of the Black Sea fleet to Russia. But the Ukraine parliament may try to block the deal. Ukraine owes Russia about $6 billion...
Russia and Ukraine have been arguing for more than a year over what to do about the powerful 350-ship Black Sea fleet of the former Soviet navy. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk reached a solution: they will split the fleet down the middle. The fleet's port in Sevastopol, Ukraine, will be shared as well. Russia also agreed officially to guarantee Ukraine's security, a condition Kravchuk has insisted on before giving up his 1,900-warhead nuclear arsenal...
DURING A VISIT LAST WEEK TO BEIJING, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LEONID KRAVCHUK was trying to peddle the 67,000-ton aircraft carrier Varyag, nearing completion in the Ukrainian port of Nikolayev. Selling the carrier may be difficult, though. The Russians, not the Ukrainians, paid for construction of the 922-ft.-long vessel, and can be expected to assert ownership...
Yeltsin demanded an end to the bloodshed, and Kravchuk said he would support the Russian and Ukrainian secessionists if Moldova returned to Romania. Two days later, at a regional economic conference in Istanbul, Yeltsin and Moldovan President Mircea Snegur announced a cease-fire. Snegur said Moldova's parliament would examine ways to grant home rule to the Trans-Dniester region, where Russian and Ukrainian separatists are concentrated...