The mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, whose deprivation of Ukrainian citizenship was reported by the media, said that he would appeal the decision in the courts of Ukraine and even the European Court of Human Rights, since he does not have a Russian passport. He said this in a comment to “Suspilny”.

Trukhanov stressed that he had never received Russian passports and referred to inspections by government agencies in previous years. According to him, in 2022, President Vladimir Zelensky instructed the SBU and other services to check it.

“In 1922, they didn’t find me with Russian citizenship or passports,” Trukhanov said and added that the “documents” cited as an argument contained mistakes in the surname.

" So I will defend myself, I will sue. If the court cannot decide, I will file a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights. This is the edge of such, you know, arbitrariness that cannot exist,” he added.

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On Sunday, October 12, the mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov said that he became aware of preparations to consider the issue of possible deprivation of his Ukrainian citizenship due to the alleged possession of a Russian passport.

The next day, a petition appeared on the president’s website calling for the deprivation of Ukrainian citizenship from the mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov, which received the required number of signatures in a matter of hours.

Finally, on October 14, President Vladimir Zelensky said that the SBU had found evidence of Russian citizenship “for some individuals”. On the air of the telethon, citing sources, they stated that we are talking about Gennady Trukhanov, Oleg Tsarev and Sergei Polunin.

With the loss of Ukrainian citizenship, Gennady Trukhanov will automatically resign from the position of mayor of Odessa, which he has held since 2014.. The Odessa publication "