1991 in Ukraine

Events in the year 1991 in Ukraine.

← 1990 1989 1988 1991 in Ukraine → 1992 1993 1994
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	History of Ukraine List of years in Ukraine

Incumbents

• President: Leonid Kravchuk
• Prime Minister: Vitold Fokin

Events

• August 24 – The country declares its independence from the Soviet Union.^[1]
• October 6 – Soviet President Gorbachev condemns antisemitism in the Soviet Union in a statement read on the 50th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacres, which saw the death of 35,000 Jews in the country during WWII.^[2][3]
• December 8 – In the Białowieża Forest Nature Reserve in Belarus, the leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine sign an agreement officially ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in its place.^[4][5]
• December 12 – Ukraine becomes the first post-Soviet republic to decriminalize homosexuality.^[6]

Births

• 29 June - Anton Kukhta, Ukrainian footballer

Deaths