Zelensky Moves Against Opponents, Strips Odessa Mayor Trukhanov of Ukrainian Citizenship, Causing Him To Lose His Mandate (VIDEOS)

 

Ukrainian leaders discussing strategy against a blue background, emphasizing collaboration and leadership in challenging times.
Volodymyr Zelensky and ousted Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov.

Zelensky is moving against all opponents.

The leader of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, is flexing his power, setting his security agencies against all his political rivals in the country.

Yesterday (14), in as move many see as illegal, Zelensky revoked the citizenship of Odesa’s mayor and instituting a military rule in the important Black Sea port.

Mayor Trukhanov was targeted for supposedly ‘having a Russian passport’.

With a military administrator chosen by him in charge of the city, Zelensky would obtain more direct control over the city.

Reuters reported:

“Hennadiy Trukhanov, 60, an elected official, said he would take his case to court, denying having a Russian passport and insisting that he remained mayor. Ukrainian officials are prohibited from holding dual citizenship.”

Zelensky vowed to appoint someone soon to head up the military administration of the city.

“’Too many security issues in Odesa have remained unresolved for too long’, he said.

The remarks echoed his comments from last week, in which he accused Odesa’s ‘local leaders’ of failing to do enough to protect residents from flooding last month that killed 10 people.”

The Ukrainian domestic security agency SBU stated that it had evidence Trukhanov had a valid Russian passport, posting a picture on Telegram that many see as a crude falsification.

“Trukhanov said in a video address: ‘I will appeal the decision to strip me of my Ukrainian citizenship in the Supreme Court. And, if that is not enough, I will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights’.”

Watch: mayor Trukhanov officially comments on his loss of Ukrainian citizenship

Trukhanov became a target of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis for speaking out against the Ukrainian movement of ‘de-Russification’ and the dismantling of Odessa’s statues to Russia’s Catherine the Great – who founded the port in 1794 – and to Alexander Pushkin, the Russian playwright.

RT reported:

“In an interview with the New York Times […] Trukhanov said that he was against renaming the city’s central Pushkin Street, named after the famous 19th century Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.

‘I would not support that. [Odessa] is the intercultural capital of Ukraine. I am worried by the growth of hatred of all things Russian’, the mayor claimed.”

Zelensky Moves Against Opponents, Strips Odessa Mayor Trukhanov of Ukrainian Citizenship, Causing Him To Lose His Mandate (VIDEOS) Zelensky Moves Against Opponents, Strips Odessa Mayor Trukhanov of Ukrainian Citizenship, Causing Him To Lose His Mandate (VIDEOS) Reviewed by Your Destination on October 15, 2025 Rating: 5

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