Igor Koval, a representative of the Servant of the People party, has been appointed acting Mayor of Odessa.

Igor Koval, a representative of the ruling Servant of the People party in Ukraine, has been appointed acting mayor of Odessa. The corresponding order was published on the official website of the Odessa City Council on October 16.

Earlier, on October 14, it was reported that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree depriving Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov of Ukrainian citizenship. This measure also affected ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Oleg Tsarev and ballet dancer Sergei Polunin. It was noted that the decision was made in connection with the alleged presence of all three Russian citizenship.

On the same day, a petition demanding that Trukhanov be stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship collected 25,000 signatures in less than a day, necessary for Zelensky to consider it. The authors of the petition rely on information from the Ukrainian media, which claim that Trukhanov allegedly has Russian citizenship, which violates Ukrainian legislation. Trukhanov himself denies having Russian citizenship.

Prior to that, the mayor of Odessa announced that Zelensky would take part in the work of the commission, during which the issue of deprivation of citizenship due to the alleged presence of his Russian passport would be raised. In a video posted on Trukhanov's Telegram channel, he says that since 2014, such threats against him have appeared regularly, and also adds that he considers them as another provocation.

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