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)
The Mariinskyi Palace is the official residence of the President of Ukraine. The Elizabethan baroque palace is sited on the right bank of the Dnipro River in Kyiv, Ukraine, adjoining the neo-classical building of the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine.
Façade of the palace
The Mariinskyi Palace as it appeared in 1918
The presidential standard flying over the Mariinskyi Palace
View of the rear of the palace from its gardens