Treaty on the Division of the Black Sea Fleet

June 9, 1995, Sochi, russian federation.

In the video: airport, arrival of President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma and his wife, met by journalists and the russian delegation; blitz interview of Kuchma with journalists; arrival at the hotel; city views; dacha of President of russia Boris Yeltsin, arrival of delegations; among those present — Prime Minister of Ukraine Yevhen Marchuk, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Gennady Udovenko, Prime Minister of russia Viktor Chernomyrdin; beginning of the signing ceremony: handshakes of the presidents of the countries, speeches, signing of the Treaty on the Black Sea Fleet.

Reference: The Agreement between Ukraine and the russian federation on the Black Sea Fleet of June 9, 1995 defined the principles of the division of the fleet and the conditions for basing the russian Black Sea Fleet on the territory of Ukraine. The document provided for the separate basing of fleets, the division of property, ships and further negotiations on the legal status of the russian federation's presence in Crimea.