US EditionHennadiy Trukhanov, Odesa’s Embattled, Lightning-Rod Mayor, Denies Russian Citizenship Claims
- President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a decree on Wednesday placing Odesa under military administration and appointing intelligence general Serhii Lysak, relieving him of his Dnipropetrovsk post.
- Following SBU reports, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday revoked Gennadiy Trukhanov's Ukrainian citizenship after the Security Service of Ukraine alleged a 2015 Russian passport.
- Speaking on October 15, Gennadiy Trukhanov denied the allegations, called the Security Service of Ukraine passport photograph a fake, and said he will sue.
- Already the largest Ukrainian port on the Black Sea, Odesa is home to about 1 million people and suffered flooding last month that killed at least nine residents.
- Zelensky has previously set up military administrations in Kyiv and other cities, and some mayors have chafed, with Vitali Klitschko accusing political intrigue on January 29.
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Hennadiy Trukhanov, Odesa’s Embattled, Lightning-Rod Mayor, Denies Russian Citizenship Claims
Hennadiy Trukhanov, the embattled mayor of Odesa, again denied allegations he illegally held Russian citizenship , as Ukraine’s president stripped him of Ukrainian citizenship and imposed a military administration on the country’s most important port city.
First Ukrainian President Selenskyi withdrew his citizenship from the mayor of Odessa - now he placed the port city under military administration. Observers speak of a power struggle. By F. Kellermann. [more]]>
Brigadier General Sergei Lysak has been appointed head of the military administration of the city.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has placed the city of Odessa under military administration following a dispute with Mayor Gennady Trukhanov. He has appointed Secret Service General Serhiy Lysak as head of the military administration. Zelensky stripped Trukhanov, who is also believed to hold a Russian passport, of his Ukrainian citizenship on Tuesday.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski placed Odessa under military administration, at the bottom of a conflict with the capital of the port to the Black Sea. By a decree issued on Wednesday, Zelenski established a new military administration in front of which...
Selenskyy has denied Mayor Odessa his nationality. In the future, fate will guide a military administrator appointed from Kiev. Does the central government want to expand its own power in this way?
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