National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine is the coordinating state body of the executive power under the President of Ukraine on issues of national security and defense.
All the sessions take place in the Presidential Administration Building, Kyiv.
The President of Ukraine is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, conducts negotiations and concludes international treaties. The president is directly elected by the citizens of Ukraine for a five-year term of office, limited to two terms consecutively.
President of Ukraine
President of the Central Council Mykhailo Hrushevskyi (1917–18)
Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1918)
President of the Directorate Volodymyr Vynnychenko (1918–19)