Under pressure from right-wing radicals, the governor of Mykolaiv region temporarily resigned
The head of the Nikolaev regional state administration, Alexey Savchenko, submitted to President Petro Poroshenko his application to resign during the investigation into the criminal case of the suicide of the head of the Nikolaev International Airport, Vladislav Voloshin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I wrote a statement about this and registered it today. It was registered on March 30, No. 3231934301,” Savchenko told reporters on Friday in Kyiv, showing a handwritten document.
When asked whether the president accepted the statement, the head of the regional administration said: “There is a certain flow of documents. It is impossible not to accept this statement in agreement with him.”
He also noted that he made this decision deliberately, “to avoid any speculation.”
When asked who will perform his duties during the specified period, Savchenko replied: “I hope, the first deputy.”
On the eve of March 29, as PolitNavigator reported, neo-Nazis broke into the building of the Nikolaev Regional Council and, threatening deputies, demanded that they sign a document expressing no confidence in Governor Alexei Savchenko. The ultra-right suspects the official of driving the head of the Nikolaev airport, former pilot-hero of the ATO, Vladislav Voloshin, to suicide.
Let us remind you that on March 18 in Nikolaev, a 29-year-old acting officer committed suicide in his own apartment. director of the Nikolaev airport, pilot Vladislav Voloshin. Rumors about Savchenko’s involvement in the death of the former military pilot began to spread after local media published Voloshin’s correspondence with one of his friends, where Savchenko was mentioned.
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