Twenty-eight years ago, in the days following Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union on August 24, 1991, Ukraine’s Parliament reached a temporary economic and military agreement with a delegation of leaders of the Russian Parliament during their impromptu official visit to Kyiv on August 28-29.
A joint communiqué was signed by Ukrainian Supreme Soviet Chairman Leonid Kravchuk and Russian Federation Vice-President Alexander Rutskoy in response to a statement by Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who questioned the current borders of republics that declared independence following the failed Communist coup.