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“They Haven’t Been in Touch”: New Head of Odesa Regional Administration Has Not Yet Met Trukhanov

“They Haven’t Been in Touch”: New Head of Odesa Regional Administration Has Not Yet Met Trukhanov
“They Haven’t Been in Touch”: New Head of Odesa Regional Administration Has Not Yet Met Trukhanov

According to the new head of Odesa Oblast, Maksym Kutsyi, the mayor of Odesa did not congratulate him on his appointment and did not try to make contact.

He said this in an TK Media interview, answering a question about whether the new governor of Odesa Oblast had managed to meet Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov.

Maksym Kutsyi
Head of the Odesa Regional State Administration

No. Unfortunately. Or rather, “not unfortunately,” but I simply haven’t had the chance to meet him. Due to his absence. Hennadiy Trukhanov is currently officially on leave, which means he is somewhere outside Odesa. On the 14th we had a big holiday, Defender of Ukraine Day, and there were ceremonial events. The city council was represented there by his deputy.

Asked whether the mayor had congratulated him on his appointment by phone, Kutsyi replied that so far no one had reached out, and that he had not communicated with Trukhanov either in person or by phone.

As a reminder, on October 11, on the eve of Defender of Ukraine Day, Volodymyr Zelensky presented to Odesans the new governor of Odesa Oblast.

Earlier, in July, the president put 5 candidates for head of the Odesa Regional State Administration up for public discussion, later choosing 36-year-old Maksym Kutsyi.