{"id":1260140,"date":"2025-07-15T10:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/july-16-day-of-the-proclamation-of-the-declaration-on-state-sovereignty-of-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T07:12:55","slug":"july-16-day-of-the-proclamation-of-the-declaration-on-state-sovereignty-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/july-16-day-of-the-proclamation-of-the-declaration-on-state-sovereignty-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"July 16 \u2013 Day of the Proclamation of the Declaration on State Sovereignty of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On this day, July 16, 1990, the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR adopted the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine \u2014 a document that became an important milestone on the path to the declaration of independence in 1991.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Declaration defined the fundamental principles on which Ukraine&#8217;s statehood was to be built: independence in making political and economic decisions, territorial integrity, the rule of law of Ukraine, the right of the people to self-determination, as well as guarantees of the rights and freedoms of citizens.<\/p>\n<p> This document laid the legal and political foundations for further steps towards independence, in particular, for the adoption of the Act of Proclamation of Independence of Ukraine on August 24, 1991.<\/p>\n<p> Today, in the context of Russia&#8217;s armed aggression, the provisions of the Declaration remain relevant. They emphasize the importance of protecting state sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national unity.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, July 16, 1990, the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR adopted the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine \u2014 a document that became an important milestone on the path to the declaration of independence in 1991. The Declaration defined the fundamental principles on which Ukraine&#8217;s statehood was to be built: independence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1260134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76878],"class_list":["post-1260140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1260134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}