 In the period of the "Hetmanate" (1918), he was a member of the Ukrainian National Union, in opposition to the government of Pavlo Skoropadsky.Later during the time of the Directorate of Ukraine, he was one of the founders of the "Labour Council of Ukraine" - the highest governing body of Ukraine.Livytskyi also held positions as the Minister of Justice and the deputy of the "Rada of National Ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR)" in 1919, as well as the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the government of Isaak Mazepa in 1919.