On the night of August 5, a Ukrainian statesman, the fourth Prime Minister of Ukraine Yevgeny Marchuk died. This was reported by Marchuk's wife Larisa Ivshina.
The Security Service of Ukraine, of which he was the first head since 1992, reported the cause of death.
"Coronavirus disease exacerbated the diseases he was suffering from and provoked acute cardiopulmonary failure," the message says.
Marchuk was 80 years old. Under Soviet power, he rose to the rank of KGB general, first deputy of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1991, he became Minister of Defense, State Security and Emergency Situations of the Ukrainian SSR. When Ukraine was independent, he was the first head of the SBU (1991-1994), Prime Minister of Ukraine in 1995-1996. Candidate of Legal Sciences.
In 2018-2019, he represented Ukraine in the Trilateral Contact Group on the Peaceful Settlement of the Situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.
