The mayor of Odesa said that tomorrow Zelensky may strip him of Ukrainian citizenship

The mayor of Odesa, Hennadiy Trukhanov, stated that tomorrow Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky may strip him of Ukrainian citizenship.

Trukhanov said this in his video address.

According to the mayor, the presidential commission may consider the issue of depriving him of Ukrainian citizenship due to the alleged possession of Russian citizenship.

“Since 2014, I have constantly explained that I do not have and never have had Russian citizenship. All the relevant Ukrainian authorities have checked me,” said Trukhanov.

It should be recalled that last year the topic of the Odesa mayor’s alleged Russian citizenship already “resurfaced.”

Former head of the Odesa branch of the “Right Sector,” self-styled activist Serhiy Sternenko, published photos of copies of documents from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in his Telegram channel, which, according to him, prove that Trukhanov is a Russian citizen. The mayor soon denied this statement, hinting that the publication directed against him might have been orchestrated by the Odesa Regional Military Administration headed by Oleh Kiper.

According to one version, this was a way to send Trukhanov a signal to stop interfering with the so-called “decolonization” — the mass renaming of streets and demolition of monuments associated with the Russian Empire or the USSR.