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Oct. 12, 2025, 9:25 p.m.
Trukhanov claims to be deprived of his citizenship
Цей матеріал також доступний українською430
Gennady Trukhanov. PHOTO: Intent
Today, Gennadiy Trukhanov published a statement that he is going to be deprived of his Ukrainian citizenship on the grounds of allegedly having Russian Federation citizenship.
What Trukhanov said
He reminded that this topic has been systematically raised since 2014. At that time, he repeatedly denied holding Russian citizenship, and all checks by Ukrainian authorities did not establish this fact.
At a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada in 2014, Anatoliy Kinakh read out an official response from the Russian Consulate, which confirmed that Trukhanov was not on the list of Russian citizens.
In 2016, the Migration Service also received a similar response from the Russian Consulate.
In 2018, as part of international legal assistance, the NABU received an official certificate from the Russian Interior Ministry stating that as of July 26, 2018, Trukhanov "was not listed in the records of the Russian Interior Ministry as having acquired Russian citizenship" and that there was no information about his crossing the Russian border since July 2016.
The documents that sometimes appear in the media, he said, are "invalid, fake".
According to him, one such "evidence" appeared due to a lawyer's appeal to Crimea in April 2025 with a request for his citizenship and an alleged passport photo with a date of issue of December 15, 2015 - but at that time he was physically in Odesa, which is confirmed by publications on social networks.
He stated that biometric procedures require personal presence, so it is impossible to obtain such a document "at a distance".
Trukhanov emphasized that tomorrow the issue of deprivation of his Ukrainian citizenship due to "having Russian citizenship" is scheduled to be considered by the Commission under the President of Ukraine.
Finally, Trukhanov appealed to the president: "Make a legal and thorough check. I ask the President and the competent services to look closely at the documents and establish the truth."
The politician also appealed to the public not to succumb to rumors and provocations and said that Ukraine now needs "peace, unity and consolidated work."
Context
Trukhanov's statement was first reported at 18:54 by Vitaliy Barvinenko, head of the Odesa District Council and a fellow Trukhanov supporter. The statement appeared at 21:00 on Trukhanov's own channel and almost simultaneously on the Odesa channel. It was officially made by the same Barvinenko.
Talks about the possible introduction of a military administration in Odesa or other ways to remove Trukhanov have been going on for a long time. Recently, a petition on the president's website for the introduction of the administration gathered 25,000 signatures in just a few days.
