June 5 1707: Hetman Ivan Mazepa of Ukraine starts secret talks with Charles XII of Sweden about joint military operations against Tsar Peter I of Russia.
1990: The first council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAPTs) convenes in Kyiv. June 6 Ukrainian Journalists Day
2000: US President Bill Clinton’s visit to Ukraine begins, during which Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma announces the closing of the Chornobyl Atomic Power Station on 15 December 2000.
June 7 1989: The world’s largest plane, the Ukrainian-built An-225 (Mriia), flies from Kyiv to Paris for the 38th Paris International Air and Space Show, carrying the Buran space shuttle on her fuselage.
1993: The International Committee on Economic Reforms and Cooperation is founded in Kyiv as a non-profit organization aimed at attracting private foreign capital to Ukraine.
June 8 1937: The first Ukrainian architects’ convention opens in Kyiv.
1995: President Leonid Kuchma and Speaker Oleksandr Moroz sign a constitutional agreement between the Verkhovna Rada and the president of Ukraine, concerning the main principles of the organization and functioning of state power in Ukraine.
June 9 1847: Tsar Nicholas I of Russia approves the sentence handed down to Taras Shevchenko, who is drafted as a private into the Russian army and forbidden to write and paint.
1995: The presidents of Ukraine and the Russian Federation meet in Sochi to sign an agreement on the separate deployments of the Black Sea fleets of Russia and Ukraine, and another on the disposition of the fleet’s property.
June 10 1917: In Kyiv, without prior arrangement, the Central Rada issues its first Universal (decree) proclaiming Ukraine’s autonomy.
1994: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the Ukrainian Student League.
June 11 1921: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree on the struggle against child homelessness.
1992: The International Jewish Solomon University opens in Kyiv.
