The Presidential Commission on Citizenship has decided to revoke the Ukrainian citizenship of Odesa mayor Hennadyi Trukhanov. This decision is based on evidence provided by the Security Service and has been approved by a decree of the President of Ukraine.

As has been established by the Security Service, the current mayor of Odesa, Hennadiy Trukhanov, is a citizen of russia and holds a valid foreign passport of the aggressor state. The SSU has copies of documents confirming this.

On 15 December 2015, after the start of aggression against Ukraine and the temporary occupation of Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Hennadiy Leonidovich Trukhanov received a foreign (travel) passport of the occupying state. It was issued for a period of 10 years and is currently a valid document.

As for russian internal passport, according to available information, Trukhanov’s representatives submitted an application to the russian authorities in 2017. As a result, a court in moscow region cancelled his internal passport. However, in additional explanations, the court states that a cancellation or refusal of such a document ‘does not entail the deprivation of russian citizenship acquired by a person on legal grounds’.

Thus, Hennadiy Trukhanov remains a citizen of the aggressor state. He also has an identification code that is reflected in the database of the ‘federal tax service of the russian federation’.