Picture of Pavlo Skoropadsky,the Hetman (Head of State) of Ukraine(From 29 April to 14 December 1918). In this period of time Ukraine was called Ukrainian State (Ukrainska Derzhava) or Hetmanate (Hetmanshina),the historical name of the territories of the north,east,south east and south of the actual Ukraine,habitated by Cossacks.
Period of Directory(December of the Army and the State at this period)Simon Petrlyura(Extreme Right),Prime Minister Volodymyr Vinnichenko(Centre)and the ministers.
Skoropadsky with Kaiser Wilhelm II. The Hetmanate was supported by the Central Powers(Germany,Austro-Hungary,Ottoman Empire)to avoid the expansionism of the Bolshevic revolution to central europe after the fall of the Tsarist Russia.
