Ukraine votes to leave the Soviet Union
1991 · Event
Ninety-two per cent of Ukrainians — with majorities in every region, Crimea included — vote for independence. Without Ukraine there is no union worth the name: a week later the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus meet in the Belavezha forest and sign the USSR away.
On these timelines: Fall of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Master, Russia & the USSR, Cold War
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