Russian-speaking Odessa resists Kiev dystopia.
We have been reporting on how Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky is targeting political opponents in order to pave the way for his reelection, once he decides to allow the vote to happen.
In this process, Zelensky ousted the mayor of the important Black Sea port of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, accusing him of having a Russian passport.
Yesterday (15), Zelensky appointed a military administration to Odessa, with a former agent of the Security Service of Ukraine as new former regional governor.
Reuters reported:
“The appointment of Serhiy Lysak, who had led the Dnipropetrovsk region, came a day after the removal of mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov over his alleged possession of a Russian passport.”
Lysak was the Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast from 2023 up until yesterday’s appointment as head of the Odesa city military administration.
The practice of instituting military administration in cities has been criticized as authoritarian by some opponents.
Anastasia Piliavsky reported in Uk’s Spectator:
“In a single week, Kiev has launched a triple attack on Odesa: on its language, history, and elected government. The city, which for almost four years has endured relentless bombardment and held Ukraine’s maritime front, now finds itself besieged by its own capital.”
Stripping Trukhanov – the city’s three-times-elected mayor – of his Ukrainian citizenship and office is an illegal move.
“The charge is that Trukhanov holds a Russian passport, which the mayor flatly denies. Yet without a court hearing or any due process, the president signed a decree removing his citizenship. Article 25 of Ukraine’s Constitution explicitly forbids depriving a citizen of their nationality. Even under martial law, this is a breathtaking attack on democracy.”
watch:
An electric substation in Odessa, #Ukraine. Yesterday
during the Russian missile strike. pic.twitter.com/HXEU314bsi
— Soror Inimicorum
(@SororInimicorum) October 13, 2025
This excerpt below sounds like Russian propaganda, but it’s the grim reality.
“Since the outbreak of war, Zelensky’s administration has sanctioned rival politicians, shuttered television channels, silenced anti-corruption critics, and dissolved parties on grounds of ‘national security’. What began as wartime necessity now reads as political strategy: the narrowing of public life, a calculated purge of dissent. In a country that claims to be fighting for freedom, democracy and the rule of law, such moves clang like alarm bells.”
Footage of massive fires raging in warehouses in Odessa after overnight strikes
”The fire engulfed several warehouses with a total area of 5,000 square meters, the Ukrainian Emergency Service reports.
RVvoenkor pic.twitter.com/c9kWjuXVHT— Victor vicktop55 commentary (@vick55top) October 13, 2025
BREAKING
Russia just conducted a massive strike on a plant near Odessa: according to sources, the enterprise stored fuel for the Ukrainian military. pic.twitter.com/6tYDdXJmjl
— RussiaNews (@mog_russEN) October 1, 2025
Besides the elected leaders, Kiev is also attacking the city’s language: Russian.
Ukraine’s Cabinet approved a bill removing Russian and Moldovan from the list of protected minority languages.
Odessans view this ‘as a personal insult’.
The third attack is on Odessa’s history and heritage.
“The newly-empowered Institute of National Memory in Kyiv has ordered the removal of figures now deemed ‘imperialist’, including Count Mikhail Vorontsov, the nineteenth-century governor who shaped Odesa after the Napoleonic wars. His cosmopolitan vision made Odesa a bridge between empires – a burgeoning port on the Black Sea. Erasing such figures does not ‘decolonize’ Odesa: it amputates its European roots and identity.”
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