The first Prime Minister of post-Soviet Ukraine, Witold Fokin, has died at the age of 92.

The first prime minister of post-Soviet Ukraine, Witold Fokin, died at the age of 93, the Ukrainian Public television channel reported on March 20, citing data from the politician's granddaughter Maria Fokina.

"The first Prime Minister of Ukraine, Witold Fokin, has died. He was 92 years old," the media's Telegram channel says.

Fokin was born on October 25, 1932 in the Zaporizhia region. He was an employee at the mines of Donbass, as well as the State Planning Committee of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1991, he and the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, signed the Belovezhskaya Agreement on the liquidation of the USSR on behalf of Kiev. In the same year, Fokin became the head of the government of Ukraine. However, a year later, the Verkhovna Rada expressed no confidence in the Cabinet of Ministers, after which the government was dismissed.

From August 18 to September 30, 2020, the politician was the deputy representative of Ukraine in the contact group for the settlement of the situation in Donbass.