Mayor of Chernihiv Vladislav Atroshenko confirmed that he met with Congresswoman Victoria Spartz, who recently made several loud statements about the personnel in the OP and noted that Andriy Yermak should resign. But the mayor noted during an interview with ZN. UA that they didn't talk about the things she described in the letter to Joe Biden.

" Then we talked in the presence of a representative of the military-civilian administration. The issues raised in the appeal to the President of the United States are definitely beyond my competence, - Atroshenko notes.. “I asked Victoria Spartz to use all the possibilities of her influence in order to quickly provide Ukraine with weapons and protect the sky, at that moment it was a very relevant and acute topic.”.

There is a very important point in the interview with UP, which Spartz did not quite understand, and the journalists did not specify. The so-called defense budgets of communities. In fact, her thesis was born from the position of the Association of Ukrainian Cities, which was recently publicly voiced by the Mayor of Dnipro Boris Filatov. By law, communities are required to allocate funds for the maintenance of TRO and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, the government blocked all procurement mechanisms: there is no way to work with Western suppliers on an advance payment, and the Cabinet of Ministers recently returned these purchases to the Prozorro system. As a result, the masses are sitting on millions (there are 500 million free people near the Dnieper), but they cannot help the army. The mayor of Chernihiv explained his position on this issue.

" But I don’t support the form and tone of Boris Filatov’s statement and I think that any intrigues around the post of prime minister in a war are superfluous. The president will decide on his own regarding the prime minister,"

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