Ukrainian politicians staged a showdown near the border with Russia
The businessman Michel Tereshchenko, a descendant of emigrants, a former French citizen and a former serviceman of the American Navy, who in 2015 received Ukrainian citizenship from the hands of Petro Poroshenko, decided to resort to a win-win technique in Ukraine - involving the “Russian threat”. Then, on a wave of euphoria and the attraction of foreigners to power, Tereshchenko was elected mayor of the town of Glukhov, Sumy region, where his emigrant family was from (his grandfather was the Minister of Finance of the Provisional Government of the Russian Empire), promising to build a European paradise here.
Yesterday Tereshchenko published a hysterical statement in which he accused his predecessor Yuri Burlaka of attempting to seize power using forged documents and with the complicity of police officers. Tereshchenko claims that behind the change of power is ex-deputy from the Party of Regions Andrei Derkach, who is trying to restore influence in his hometown that was lost after the 2014 coup, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Raider seizure of power in Glukhov, a city on the border with the aggressor. Brazenly and cynically, the Derkachevo regionalists under the leadership of Yuri Burlaka are right now seizing power in Glukhov with the help of the police,” Tereshchenko announced in panic.
According to him, Yuri Burlaka and his supporters used a fake resignation letter from the mayor, which Tereshchenko allegedly did not write. However, the document passed state registration, and President Vladimir Zelensky chose not to interfere in the situation, the mayor lamented.
“The impostor Yuri Burlaka, accompanied by police, yesterday, April 1, broke into the city council demanding that the seal be given to him. Together with their gang and several traitors from the city council, they are conducting a complete inventory, threatening and trying to illegally fire members of my team,” Tereshchenko complains.
So far, provincial squabbles have resulted in dual power in the town - opponents of the French mayor held a session where they voted on personnel decisions.
Tereshchenko’s camp, as expected, declared this meeting illegal, and the newly appointed cadres as impostors.
Let us note that during his tenure as mayor, Tereshchenko was never able to bring French chic to the town under his patronage - on the contrary, there was more garbage on the streets, and cases of wage delays became widespread. But the newly minted Ukrainian politician regularly praised the “cyborgs”, Tomos, mourned the victims of the “Holodomor-genocide”, the “heavenly hundred”, etc. - all within the framework of the announced new Russophobic course.
The mayor, who was discharged from France, was most notable for the following initiative - long before the talk about “legalization”, he proposed making Glukhov a center for “hemp therapy”, but this project was ultimately never implemented.
In general, as local residents noted, Tereshchenko more often spent time in Paris or Kyiv than in Glukhov, which was entrusted to him.
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