“They said we will fry kebabs in May”: the mayor of the Dnieper criticized Zelensky

“Tragic Mistake”

The newspaper wrote that the Mayor of Dnipro, Boris Filatov, was angry with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky for it was reported that the Commander of the Regional Defense Forces of the Dnipropetrovsk Region, Gennady Korban, had revoked his Ukrainian citizenship. politics.

Filatov told the broadcast that he considers the situation with Korban a “tragic mistake”.

“I would hardly like the central government, taking advantage of the fact of the ongoing war in our country, to begin to create, say, an autocracy,” Filatov added.

He noted that politicians in Ukraine have unofficially agreed to come together to fight together against Russia and put aside differences and grievances. But the mayor of Dnipro said “war does not give the right to usurp power”.

Another complaint by Mayor Filatov is that, in his view, Zelensky “underestimated the threat of invasion” by Russia for several weeks.

“Unfortunately, the government has calmed everyone down, despite the warnings of our Western partners and President Joe Biden himself. “We were told we were going to fry kebabs in May,” said Filatov.

According to him, he immediately “takes the warnings seriously” regarding the preparation of the military special operation of the Russian Federation due to 2014, when Crimea became part of Russia. Filatov said he sent “clear instructions to critical infrastructure facilities” to Politico and gathered experts to discuss what to do if internet and telephone communications were to be interrupted. He also set up a volunteer rapid response team.

At the same time, the mayor of Dnipro closely cooperated with the city’s Territorial Defense Forces, headed by Gennady Korban. In this way, barricades were set up in the region and ditches were dug on the outskirts of the city.

“I can no longer log in with any documents”

Korban previously posted on Facebook (the owner of Meta identified as an extremist organization) that he banned border guards from re-entering Ukraine after traveling abroad. Ukrainian media released a video showing border guards confiscating Ukrainian passport.

“I can no longer enter with any documents: neither with a military ID, nor with a “Die” (Ukrainian public service application “Action” – “socialbites.ca”), nothing. I’m actually stuck here in the border area. Lawyers are now figuring it out, because it is not clear according to what document, for example, I can go back to Poland, ” Strana.ua quotes Korban.

deprivation of citizenship

According to reports in the Ukrainian media on July 20, Zelensky’s deprivation of citizenship of oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, politician, co-chairman of the Opposition Platform – For Life party Vadim Rabinovich and businessman Gennady Korban. Verkhovna Rada Deputy Serhiy Vlasenko posted on his Facebook page a photo of Zelensky’s so-called secret decree depriving ten people of Ukrainian citizenship.

In addition to Kolomoisky, Korban and Rabinovich on the list, there was a certain native of Syria living in the Odessa region, a resident of Odessa Anas Al-Solomat, Elena Eremina from the Zaporozhye region, a Moldavian Larisa Kol from Odessa. Vyacheslav Lima, born in Uzbekistan, living in Odessa, Galina Rogovenko, citizen of the Russian Federation, and Seymur Khuduev, born in Azerbaijan.

On the 28th, the Ukrainian leader said that deprivation of citizenship is part of normal practice, although there is no official confirmation of the authenticity of the decree issued by the parliamentarian.

“We regularly grant or strip our state of citizenship. “This is an ongoing process and everything happens constantly within the limits of current legislation,” he said.

Dnipro Mayor Boris Filatov admitted that he was angry with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with Politico. The justification was the decision of the head of state to strip the head of the city’s defense headquarters, Gennady Korban, of citizenship. According to the mayor, hostilities do not give the right to usurp power. Filatov was also displeased with the Ukrainian authorities’ downplaying of the Russian special operations threat.



Source: Gazeta

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