In the video: the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow, a meeting between Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and Boris Yeltsin, the Ukrainian delegation at the table.
The Commonwealth of Independent States is an international organization that was founded on December 8, 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Ukraine became one of the founding members and on April 15, 1994, signed an agreement with the states of the union on joining the Commonwealth as an associate member.