Former head of Odesa district council Barvinenko wrote a book

Vitaliy Barvinenko, former chairman of Odesa District Council, former MP and former deputy of Odesa Regional Council, announced the presentation of his book Chronicles of Illusions.

According to the politician, the presentation is scheduled for April 17 in Kyiv at the Yaroslav the Wise National Library of Ukraine.

The former head of the district council positions his book as a diary of 2025, the year of war and decisions that determine the future of Ukraine. The author claims that during the year he recorded and reflected on Russian aggression, the transformation of international support, relations with partners and allies, as well as internal political processes during the war, and tried to understand the deeper meaning of events.

In December 2025, Vitalii Barvinenko resigned as both the chairman of the Odesa District Council and a deputy of the same council. Vitalii Barvinenko explained his decision by the fact that, in his opinion, the government, hiding behind the war, deliberately destroyed local self-government.

In February 2025, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine approved a plea agreement between the prosecutor and Vitalii Barvinenko, a former member of the Ukrainian parliament and at the time the head of the Odesa District Council.

The court sentenced the person to three years in prison with a one-year disqualification to hold public office and a fine of UAH 17,000.

At the same time, the court released Vitaliy Barvinenko from serving the main sentence with probation, setting a probationary period of 1 year.

In 2018, MP Mustafa Nayem accused Vitaliy Barvinenko of planning to blow up bridges across the Dniester Estuary and the Dniester in Odesa region in 2015, and then announce the creation of the "Bessarabian People's Republic". This happened after the then head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Hrytsak said in a speech at Ukrainian Week in London that the leader of the so-called "Bessarabian People's Council" was to be a current member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

In 2015, Vitaliy Barvinenko's assistant Olena Hlischynska was accused of separatism and the creation of the "People's Council of Bessarabia." She was later exchanged for Ukrainians Yuriy Soloshenko and Gennadiy Afanasiev.

Кирило Бойко