Meeting of the Rukh and the Kyiv Military District

Video from the personal archive of Yaroslav Kendzor.

August 22, 1991, Kyiv.

On the video: meeting of representatives of the People's Council and the RUH with the leaders of the Kyiv Military District; discussing the issue of the coup d'état in the USSR, the need to create a Ukrainian army, the position of the troops during the coup; Ivan Drach's speech, conversation with General Viktor Chechevatov, who asks to take away the camera; Les Tanyuk declares a minute of silence for the dead in Moscow; present in the video are Oleksandr Yemets, Viktor Chechevatov, Ivan Drach, Dmytro Pavlychko, Larysa Skoryk, Levko Lukyanenko, Ihor Yukhnovsky; Vilen Martirosyan accuses Chechevatov and other military personnel of carrying out the orders of the putschists, suggests they leave the party, discussion.

Comments: People's Deputy of the Ukrainian SSR Ivan Drach; Commander of the Kiev Military District, General Viktor Chechevatov; People's Deputy of the Ukrainian SSR Les Tanyuk; People's Deputy of the Ukrainian SSR, Deputy Chairman of the Public and Political Organization "People's Movement of Ukraine" Vilen Martirosyan.