List of presidents of Ukraine

The president of Ukraine is the head of state of Ukraine, directly elected to a five-year term by voting eligible citizens of Ukraine. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The current office was formed when the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic passed a law on 5 July 1991 establishing the office of the "President of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic."^[1] Upon the declaration of Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991, the title was changed to "President of Ukraine". The first presidential election held on 1 December 1991 was won by Leonid Kravchuk.

Every president of Ukraine except for Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada prior to their election, with Kuchma, Yushchenko, and Yanukovych all previously serving as Prime Minister and Kravchuk as well as acting president Turchynov previously serving as Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.

Kravchuk was the first president to resign from the office, following a power struggle with Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma. After the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, Viktor Yanukovych abandoned the office and fled the country. He was subsequently impeached and replaced by Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov, who serves as acting president when the office is vacant. Early presidential elections were held on 25 May 2014 and won by Petro Poroshenko; Poroshenko was inaugurated as the fifth president on 7 June 2014. On 18 June 2015, Yanukovych was officially deprived of the title of President of Ukraine.^[2] The sixth and current president is Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who defeated Poroshenko in the 2019 presidential election and was inaugurated on 20 May 2019.

List of presidents of Ukraine from 1991 – till date.

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term[3]	Party[a]		Election	Cabinets
1		Leonid Kravchuk Леонід Кравчук (1934–2022) [4]	5 December 1991[b] – 19 July 1994 2 years, 226 days		Independent	1991	Fokin (1990–92) Kuchma (1992–93)
2		Leonid Kuchma Леонід Кучма (1938–) [6]	19 July 1994 – 23 January 2005 10 years, 188 days		Independent	1994 1999	Masol II (1994–95) Marchuk (1995–96) Lazarenko (1996–97) Pustovoitenko (1997–99) Yushchenko (1999–2001) Kinakh (2001–02) Yanukovych I (2002–04)
3		Viktor Yushchenko Віктор Ющенко (1954–) [7]	23 January 2005 – 25 February 2010 5 years, 33 days		Our Ukraine	2004	Tymoshenko I (2005) Yekhanurov (2005–06) Yanukovych II (2006–07) Tymoshenko II (2007–10)
4		Viktor Yanukovych Віктор Янукович (1950–) [8]	25 February 2010 – 22 February 2014 3 years, 362 days		Party of Regions	2010	Azarov I (2010–12) Azarov II (2012–14)
—[d]		Oleksandr Turchynov Олександр Турчинов (1964–) [9]	23 February 2014 – 7 June 2014 104 days		Fatherland	—[d]	Yatsenyuk I (2014)
5		Petro Poroshenko Петро Порошенко (1965–) [10]	7 June 2014 – 20 May 2019 4 years, 347 days		Petro Poroshenko Bloc	2014	Yatsenyuk II (2014–2016) Groysman (2016–2019)
6		Volodymyr Zelenskyy Володимир Зеленський (1978–) [11]	20 May 2019 – Incumbent 5 years, 178 days		Servant of the People	2019	Groysman (2016–2019) Honcharuk (2019–2020) Shmyhal (2020–present)

• List of Ukrainian rulers, from ancient to modern times
• List of leaders of Ukraine, since Ukrainian independence in 1917
• List of prime ministers of Ukraine, since 1917
• List of chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada, since 1938

• "The History of Presidency". Official website of the President of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 2 March 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2015.