Poroshenko praises the mayor of Odessa: He caved in, helps the Ukrainian Armed Forces, unlike the mayor of Nikolaev
A former participant in the protests on the Kulikovo Field, the mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov earned praise from the adviser to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yuri Biryukov, having lobbied for the allocation of 6,5 million hryvnia to support the remnants of the Ukrainian Naval Forces.
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“The Ukrainian Navy transferred taxes in the amount of 27.2 million hryvnia to the budget of the city of Odessa last year. The mayor, a bad-separatist-regionalist, brought the issue of helping the fleet to the City Council session this year. The City Council voted, and the city of Odessa will allocate 6.5 million hryvnia from its budget to help improve the base of the 137th Marine Battalion,” Biryukov reports.
According to him, the situation is strikingly different from neighboring Nikolaev, where the mayor Alexander Senkevich, although elected from the Maidan party, refused to follow the example of his Odessa colleague.
“The mayor, good-patriotic-self-help, this year, as in the past, communication with Igor Voronchenko (Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Naval Forces, - author.) avoided in every possible way, did not submit any draft decisions on assistance to the fleet to a vote,” Biryukov laments.
The day before, at a bloggers’ forum in Dnepropetrovsk, former press secretary of the Odessa Euromaidan Alena Balaba said that the Ukrainian Navy servicemen who left Crimea played a big role in the suppression of the Russian Spring and, in particular, the tragic events of May 2, 2014.
“When the Crimean military entered the mainland at the end of March and beginning of April 2014, Odessa received them. I want to say a paradoxical thing. It is unlikely that we would have won on May 2 in Odessa if there had not been Crimean sailors with us who were out of shape", Balaba said.
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