Overview
- Zelensky signed the October 14 decree stripping Hennadiy Trukhanov of Ukrainian citizenship, and city council secretary Ihor Koval was installed as acting mayor.
- Ukraine’s Security Service says the revocation stems from an alleged Russian passport, a claim Trukhanov rejects.
- Trukhanov plans to appeal to Ukraine’s Supreme Court, with potential escalation to the European Court of Human Rights, and seeks U.S. assistance to request records from Moscow.
- A public petition urging the citizenship revocation surpassed the 25,000-signature threshold for official consideration in under a day.
- Opposition figure Viktor Medvedchuk and analyst Anastasia Pilyavskaya frame the move as a purge of local power and an effort to sideline rivals, and Zelensky also revoked citizenship for Oleg Tsarev and ballet artist Sergei Polunin.