09 January 2016, 08:00
“People of Ukraine!
By your efforts, your will, and your word, a Free Ukrainian People's Republic has been created on Ukrainian soil. The ancient dreams of your ancestors - fighters for the freedom and rights of the workers - have been fulfilled. From this day forth, the Ukrainian People's Republic becomes independent, subject to no one, a Free, Sovereign State of the Ukrainian People.”
These words from the Fourth Universal of the Ukrainian Central Rada, a state-legal act, by which the state independence of the Ukrainian People's Republic from Russia was declared, for the first time manifested themselves in Kyiv almost a century ago - on January 9, 1918.
I am sure that Ukrainians will overcome with dignity all obstacles, and the words of the Fourth Universal in all meanings will become a reality.
Volodymyr GROYSMAN