Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko Responds Sharply to Heads of District State Administrations’ Calls to Restore Powers of Districts

The mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, sharply responded to the heads of district state administrations after watching a video in which they called on the head of the capital to refuse to combine the posts of mayor and chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration and restore the powers of the districts.

Source: Klitschko Facebook

Direct speech Klitschko: “I watched a video recorded by the heads of the districts of the capital. With whom, by the way, this morning we discussed the results of the inspection and the shortcomings in the arrangement of shelters that should be eliminated in the districts. For this, the RGA received a total of UAH 1.2 billion over the past and this year and were responsible for their arrangement.

Your “friendly team” is not even ready to answer for this. What else are you talking about? About powers? So since 2014, none of them have been deprived of you, and in 2015 they were even added.”

Details: Klitschko asked a rhetorical question, how much money allocated for shelter did the heads of the RGA master? According to him, in the city it is slightly more than 10%.

“So you will take responsibility for the city?! Create principalities?” – asked Klitschko.

He recalled that “Mr. Ratnikov acted as a reciter of a weakly fiery speech,” in respect of which there is an appeal to remove him from office after the June 1 tragedy. “When I talked with people that morning, who were, of course, emotional after the terrible tragedy, the head of the district hid behind the trees, and then quietly kicked his heels,” the mayor recalled.

Klitschko also hinted that for the one who wrote the corresponding text for the heads of the RGA, the laws, the Constitution, and the unification of efforts during the war are unimportant.

He added that someone is trying to unbalance power in the capital, destroy self-government and create chaos in Kyiv. “Do not sow wind in the heart of the country! Do not do frank political stupidity. The society sees and understands everything,” Klitschko summed up.

We will remind: Klitschko himself has a strained relationship with the authorities. Read more about the recent conflict regarding the work of the so-called points of Invincibility “How Zelenskyi and Klitschko quarreled over the “points of inviolability”. What they say in OP, in the mayor’s office and in other regions”

What came before:

• Before that, the heads of the district administrations of Kyiv published a joint video, in which they called on the mayor of the capital, Vitaliy Klitschko, to refuse to combine the posts of the mayor and the chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration. They say that it is necessary to restore the powers of the districts.
• On June 1, Kyiv City Mayor Vitali Klitschko asked the government and the OP to remove the head of the Desnyansky district, Dmitry Ratnikov, while an investigation is underway as to whether the shelter in the clinic, near which three people died, was open at night.