In Kherson, a lawmaker resigned from office before the end of his term

Yaroslav Shanko, head of the Kherson City Military Administration, signed an order terminating the powers of Yuriy Stelmashchenko, a member of the Kherson City Council of the 8th convocation, ahead of schedule. The decision was based on the council member’s personal statement resigning his seat.

This information was revealed in Yaroslav Shanko’s order, published on the Kherson City Council’s website.

The document states that Yuriy Stelmashenko submitted a statement of resignation from his deputy’s powers, which the executive body of the Kherson City Council registered on July 14, 2026. The decision was adopted in accordance with the Ukrainian laws “On the Status of Local Council Members,” “On Local Self-Government in Ukraine,” and “On the Legal Regime of Martial Law.”

The order provides for the early termination of Stelmashenko’s deputy powers, as well as his removal from the city council’s standing committee on competitiveness, sustainable development, entrepreneurship, transportation, communications, and trade.

In addition, the secretariat of the Kherson City Council has been instructed to send a copy of the order to the relevant territorial election commission. Furthermore, no later than the day after the document on the early termination of his deputy powers takes effect, the Administration of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine must be notified.

A separate clause of the document stipulates that the Information Technology Department of the Kherson City Council must publish the order on the official website of the city council and its executive bodies. Yaroslav Shanko, head of the Kherson City Military Administration, has assumed responsibility for overseeing the implementation of the order.

According to the civic movement “Chesno,” Yuriy Stelmashenko was elected to the Kherson City Council in 2020 as a candidate for the Opposition Platform—For Life party. At that time, he was serving as director of security, public relations, and government relations at Windkraft Kalanchak LLC. He also ran for the Kherson Regional Council in 2020 but was not elected.

In 2021, Stelmashenko served as acting deputy mayor of Kherson under Ihor Kolykhaiev. On the city council, he was responsible for road infrastructure and public transportation, and in December of that year, he resigned from his position at his own request.

On November 19, 2022, he was appointed advisor to the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration.

Prior to that, from 2014 to 2019, Stelmashenko served as an aide to People’s Deputy Vitalii Chepynoga, and from 2012 to 2014, he served as an aide to People’s Deputy Volodymyr Saldo on a volunteer basis. In 2016, he worked for a short time at the Kherson Regional State Administration, where he was responsible for tourism development.

In 2015, he ran for the Kherson City and Regional Councils as a candidate for the “Opposition Bloc” party but was not elected. However, that same year, he became a council member of the Dnipro District Council in the city of Kherson representing that political party. At that time, he was serving as director of Teploaktiv LLC.

Yuriy Stelmashenko was born on June 21, 1991, and holds a college degree.

Previously, Intent reported that members of the Kherson City Council declared nearly 33 million hryvnias in income and over 52 million hryvnias in savings, mostly in cash. Some of the elected officials significantly increased their wealth during the war, while others became millionaires without any official income.

Андрій Колісніченко