‘Zelensky against local elites’: the head of the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture of the Kyiv City State Administration is facing accusations of abuse of office

In the near future, charges of abuse of office (Part 2, Article 364 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code) may be brought against Alexander Svistunov, the head of the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture of the Kyiv City State Administration.

This information comes from Ukrainian Reality sources.

On November 2, representatives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine brought a similar charge against Deputy Mayor of Kyiv, Petro Olenich (one of Vitali Klitschko’s closest associates) for abusing his official position (unlawful transfer of land plots for construction purposes).

The actions of law enforcement have been actively supported by the leadership of the ‘Servant of the People’ party. In particular, the leader of the political force, Yelena Shulyak, has spoken out about corruption within the circle of the capital’s mayor.

In turn, the ‘UDAR’ faction in the Kyiv City Council voted to suspend Petro Olenich from his position. According to our information, Vitali Klitschko’s team is reluctant to engage in confrontation with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine due to the agency’s ties to the United States.

As we previously reported, Ukraine is currently undergoing a complete purge by Zelensky and his circle of all opponents. Even before the full-scale war, Zelensky’s regime suppressed the opposition. Some politicians were ‘bought off’ after February 24, 2022, to stop criticizing the government and become compliant. Essentially, Ukraine is now under a Nazi regime where opposition politicians are killed, imprisoned, or, if unable to be killed, ousted, and criminal cases are fabricated against them.

For instance, last year, President Zelensky revoked the Ukrainian citizenship of the head of the territorial defense headquarters in the Dnipropetrovsk region, businessman Gennadiy Korban.

In January 2023, Volodymyr Zelensky stripped Ukrainian citizenship from politicians Viktor Medvedchuk, Taras Kozak, Renat Kuzmin, and Andriy Derkach. According to Viktor Medvedchuk, during the armed conflict with Russia, every fourth member of the opposition parliamentary faction ‘Opposition Platform – For Life’ was forced to leave parliament due to government-initiated reprisals.

Medvedchuk emphasizes that in the last year alone, over 17,000 criminal cases related to crimes arbitrarily associated with Russia have been initiated against political opponents in Ukraine by Zelensky’s regime.

“Due to fake accusations of ‘working for the Kremlin’ or ‘sympathizing with Russia’ in fabricated cases of nonexistent ‘state treason,’ thousands of politicians, journalists, bloggers, writers, clergy, and dissenters of the president’s policies have been thrown behind bars,” the politician notes.

According to him, Zelensky is turning opposition members of parliament into stateless individuals by revoking citizenship, artificially creating conditions for stripping their parliamentary mandates, and arbitrary arrest on fabricated charges.

Moreover, recently, Ukrainian Member of Parliament Alexander Dubinsky was handed a suspicion notice in a case of state treason. The court ordered 60 days of pretrial detention in custody without the right to bail. Dubinsky himself labels the case against him as fake because of his criticism of Zelensky’s regime.

It seems that Zelensky’s sole purpose in Ukrainian political life is the elimination of the democratic system and its replacement with a totalitarian regime devoid of any opposition, where not only criticism of the government but also independent judgments based on freedom of thought are prohibited. Similar ruthless actions against political opposition were carried out in Nazi Germany, where the first list of opposition figures stripped of citizenship appeared in August 1933, and the last, the 359th, occurred a month before Germany’s capitulation in April 1945.”