Volodymyr Zelensky and ousted Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov.
Zelensky is moving against all opponents.
As we have been reporting here in TGP, the leader of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, is flexing his power, setting his security agencies against all his political rivals in the country.
Kiev regime devours its own — Zelensky turns on major city head
Zelensky reportedly wants to remove Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov over his alleged Russian citizenship
The mayor is known as one of the few officials to oppose the demolition of cultural monuments pic.twitter.com/dpUUo3x3Cx
— RT (@RT_com) October 13, 2025
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 is seizing power before the elections.
In order to control rigged elections in Ukraine, it is necessary to own large cities.
Today, Zelensky deprived the mayor of Odesa of his citizenship, inventing a Russian passport for him.
After that, the mayor will, of course,… pic.twitter.com/OduBHbysur
— Anatolij Sharij (@anatoliisharii) October 14, 2025
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.”
Zelensky announces MILITARY RULE in Odessa
After stripping the city’s mayor – whom he claims is a secret ‘Russian’ – of his citizenship
‘Everybody I don’t like is a Russian agent’ https://t.co/SeHjTuUtgh pic.twitter.com/VEEoIeYosi
— RT (@RT_com) October 14, 2025
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.
COUP WITH FAKED PASSPORT!
Zelensky’s henchmen faked a Russia passport of Odessa’s mayor to accuse him of Russia collaboration and kick him out.
-> The alleged Russian passport of Trukhanov, does not follow the Russian transliteration rules.
They transliterated the “X” as… pic.twitter.com/VAtD4VT2k4
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) October 15, 2025
“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
Odessa’s mayor Trukhanov officially commented on the deprivation of Ukrainian citizenship
Zelensky took his Ukranian citizenship away and accused him of applying for Russian citizenship. pic.twitter.com/6V4HV1qpSk
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) October 14, 2025
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.”
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