June 8, 1668: Petro Doroshenko is elected Hetman of Ukraine.
June 8, 1947: navigation is restored on the Dnipro after opening
the Zaporizhzhia sluice.
June 9, 1847: Tsar Nicholas I confirms the court ruling exiling
Taras Shevchenko as a Russian soldier, forbidden to write or paint.
June 9, 1995: the Presidents of Russia and Ukraine meet in Sochi
to sign an agreement on a separate deployment of the Black Sea Navy as
that of Russia and the Naval Forces of Ukraine, with special clauses on
the delimitation of its property.
June 10, 1964: a monument to Taras Shevchenko is unveiled in
Moscow.
June 11, 1913: the All-Russia Agricultural, Industrial, and Artistic
Exhibition opens in Kyiv.
June 11, 1921: the Soviet Ukrainian government launches
a campaign against child homelessness.
June 12, 1943: Soviet partisan units reorganized as a division
under Sydir Kovpak's command start to raid the Nazi rear in the Carpathian
Mountains.
June 12, 1991: Boris Yeltsin is elected President of the Russian
Federation.
June 13, 1912: Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma announces that
all strategic nuclear weapons deployed in Ukraine have been transferred
to Russia.
June 14, 1768: Haidamak insurgents led by Maksym Zalizniak and
Ivan Honta take Uman.
June 14, 1996: President Kuchma decrees the establishment of
the Oles Honchar All-Ukrainian Fund for the Rebirth of Outstanding Monuments
of Ukraine's Historical and Architectural Legacy.






