Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov has expressed sincere condolences to the family, relatives and friends of Ivan Drach on his death.

Today, a statesman and a public figure, a poet and an artist Ivan Drach has left us ... This is an extremely grave loss for Ukraine, for which service he has devoted all his life. He dreamed of a free man in a free, independent Ukraine and fought for it.

I express my profound and heartfelt sympathy to family and friends. Eternal memory...