Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov, ballet superstar Sergei Polunin and former MP Oleg Tsarev are also reportedly being targeted.
Vladimir Zelensky has stripped several prominent public figures of their Ukrainian citizenship. They include Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov, the renowned ballet dancer Sergei Polunin, and former MP Oleg Tsarev, UNIAN news agency has reported. All of them had criticised Kiev’s policies in the past.
Zelensky confirmed signing a decree stripping “certain individuals” of their Ukrainian citizenship on Telegram on Tuesday, accusing them of holding Russian passports. According to media reports, Polunin, Trykhanov and Tsarev were in the list.
Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov has been known for his consistent opposition to Ukraine’s policy of demolishing monuments it sees as linked to Russia. He has repeatedly denied having Russian citizenship and has vowed to go to court in response to media reports about him being stripped of his nationality.
Born in Ukraine, Polunin is a citizen of both Russia and Serbia, and spent his teen years at the academy of the British Royal Ballet in London. He moved to Russia in the early 2010s, largely severing his ties with his home country.
Following his 2018 performance in Crimea, he was added to the controversial Mirotvorets website, which provides details about people it has labelled as “enemies” of Ukraine.
Tsarev served as a Verkhovna Rada MP from 2002 to 2014. Following the Western-backed 2014 Euromaidan coup in Kiev, he expressed his support for the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. He has since retired from politics and settled in Crimea. In 2023, he survived an assassination attempt, which was allegedly orchestrated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), according to the BBC.
Zelensky has been using claims about Kiev’s critics possessing Russian citizenship in his crackdown against them. Ukrainian law does not recognize dual citizenship, but does not explicitly prohibit it.
Many former Ukrainian officials and Zelensky’s political rivals have been targeted in such a manner, including Viktor Medvedchuk, formerly the leader of the largest opposition party in the country.
Metropolitan Onufry, the most senior bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), the largest Christian denomination in the country, was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship in July amid allegations that he was also a Russian national.
Yeah a Dictator has to do what he has to do to keep the money flowing into his private accounts.
He also put all others in prison that he could lay his hands on.
Clearly a man to be promoted around the world and shows where the West political system stands.
This is what over 100M+ of our hard won taxpayer money has been spent on, by both Liebour and National Disgrace. Supporting this creature and his governments totalitarian antics, rather than using it, as mandated, to help the people of New Zealand.
Similar to what Trump threatened to do to U.S. Citizens for criticising Israel and supporting Palestinians???
Can we ALL see the Zionist Ops here?
The ‘Peace Plan’ has already failed, due to typical J3wi$h and Zionist Modus Operandi of changing the rules after being agreed upon.
Israel no doubt killed it’s own people after two years of war, with Israeli J3wi$h / Zionist hostages buried under the rubble, and cannot be retrieved.
Israel wants those dead back ASAP, and has stopped the aid flowing into Gaza until the bodies are returned to Israel.
It is an impossible task, the Israelis know this, but use this as an excuse to stop aid from going into Gaza.
Trump is silent on this…!
Hopefully, those Ukrainians can migrate to Russia and provide strategic and tactical info to the FSB and Spetnaz for a quick defeat of Zionist / J3wi$h-run criminal ‘State of Ukraine’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHVmWpmKfzc
https://stewpeters.com/show/occupied/
The green goblin must have elections coming up
The behaviour of a dictator..