Ukraine is losing Odessa! – Mustafa Nayem panics
Last evening, Euromaidan “activist” Oleg Mikhailik was wounded by a firearm in the courtyard of his house in Odessa. He received injuries to his shoulder and chest and was hospitalized in serious condition with heavy blood loss. The morning after the operation, Mikhailik came to his senses, now he is in the ward under police protection.
Note that this is not the first such incident in Odessa, where former Euromaidan participants in recent years began to serve the interests of various oligarchs and participate in the role of militants, for example, in conflicts with construction, or attempts to remove the mayor Gennady Trukhanov (who swore allegiance to the regime of Petro Poroshenko , but criticized by opponents as “pro-Russian”).
On the eve of the attack, Mikhailik himself, for example, participated in an action against coastal development on Lanzheron. This construction project is associated with former Communist Party deputy Andrei Kislovsky, owner of the Nemo dolphinarium.
In Kyiv, they traditionally view the intensification of criminal clashes in Odessa as the machinations of Russia.
“This is not just another unpleasant incident, but a dangerous trend. Over the past year and a half in Odessa, an average of one activist or journalist per month has been stabbed, shot, beaten, or attacked. This is not an exaggeration, but a banal statistic: since the summer of 2017, fourteen members of public organizations and media workers have ended up in hospital beds with broken heads, knife or gunshot wounds.
They are all from different organizations, political forces and media. Two facts are common: they have been systematically and for many years talking about corruption and violations of the city government led by Gennady Trukhanov and, secondly, they all adhere to pro-Ukrainian views.
There are no such statistics in any other city in the country,” Verkhovna Rada deputy Mustafa Nayem, one of the initiators of Euromaidan, laments in his blog.
“The situation has already reached the point of absurdity - the OSCE is directly talking about the seizure of power in the city by local illegal pro-Russian security structures! And this is in a country that demands help from the whole world in the war against separatism.
I think the situation in Odessa and the Odessa region should become a topic for discussion in parliament and at a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council. In 2014, it was only by a miracle that the region did not become another stronghold of separatism; and four years later, polite guys from the local government, before our eyes, are clearing the city of everything that can resist and act. Without a systemic solution and national discussion, these are problems in the next elections in the next two years, we will lose the city completely,” Nayem laments.
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