Former deputy and secretary of the city council in Kherson region sold out to the occupiers

The head of the occupation administration of Tavriysk was 52-year-old Andriy Movchan from Kakhovka, a former pro-Russian city councilor and former council secretary. Before the war, he had no official job or income, and after the occupation, he began to cooperate with the Russians.

This was reported by the Center for Investigative Journalism.

According to the journalists, Movchan Andriy Yuriyovych, born in 1973, lives in Kakhovka, a neighboring city to Tavriysk. In the past, he represented the pro-Russian Union of Left Forces party in the Kakhovka City Council and headed the local branch of the banned Communist Party of Ukraine. In 2020, he served for some time as the secretary of the city council of the previous convocation. According to his declarations, he did not officially work for a long time and had no income.

After the occupation of the Kherson region began in 2022, Movchan joined the collaborator's structures - he worked in the administration of Tavriysk, and in 2023 he ran for the Kherson Regional Duma created by the invaders from the Russian Communist Party. He also headed the primary party cell of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in Kakhovka.

His predecessor in office, Yevhen Chetkarev, was appointed governor of Tavriysk in June 2022. Since the beginning of 2025, he has headed the executive committee of the occupation branch of the Russian Bar Association in Kherson region.

Chetkarev is a lawyer by profession. According to the National Bar Association of Ukraine, he is still a member of the Kherson Regional Bar Council and holds a lawyer's certificate issued on April 9, 2009 by the local qualification and disciplinary commission.

The former electrician from a state-owned enterprise also decided to make a career under the occupation authorities and headed the so-called administration of Dudchyne village in Kakhovka district, Kherson region. While holding this position, he organized events for Russian holidays, including meetings with local residents, children's drawing contests, and other events with propaganda overtones, for which he was suspected of collaboration by the SBU.

Анна Бальчінос