DEVELOPING STORY: Presidential commission strips Trukhanov of citizenship over Russian passport; Zelenskyy’s signature would end 11-year tenure.
Ukraine is about to remove its most scandal-proof mayor after 11 years—but Russian citizenship allegations, not the corruption cases involving hundreds of millions, brought Hennadii Trukhanov down.
According to Odesa news outlet Dumska, a presidential commission ruled on 13 October to strip Trukhanov of Ukrainian citizenship over evidence that he holds a Russian passport.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy must now sign a decree that would automatically terminate the mayor’s powers under Ukrainian law—no court hearing, no city council vote required.
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