“Former journalist, 122 serviceman Miroslav Otkovich tried to ask the mayor of Odessa Gennady Trukhanov about the monument to Alexander Pushkin, but the mayor asked why he was not in the trench. Source: In a comment to the UP, Miroslav Otkovich tries to ask Trukhanov about the Pushkin monument in Odessa.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Otkovich in a comment to the UP
Miroslav Otkovich tries to ask Trukhanov about the Pushkin monument in Odessa. Video provided by UP pic.twitter.com/cmlifcxyzk
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Details: The military said that on June 27 he was in Odessa in order to establish cooperation with local volunteers and to promote the defense capability of the unit. Near the city council of Odessa saw a street exhibition with wreckage of rockets and marks of blows in every Ukrainian city.
Direct language: “And in this background, the Pushkin monument looked particularly cynical. By the way, the decision to demand this adept” Russian world “has been adopted for a long time, but has not yet been fulfilled.
Therefore, I decided to ask about this mayor of Odessa Trukhanov. He accidentally found myself, and I took this opportunity. You can see in the video how I introduced and asked the question. What I heard from him was not the first time, but it is still unpleasant: “Pushkin is nothing” and the ideological markers of the aggressor state Trukhanov are not embarrassed. ”
Details: Otkovich passed the UP video of the incident.
It shows the military asks Trukhanov, whether his monument of “Adept of the Russian world” Pushkin near the exhibition about the affected Ukrainian cities.
Trukhanov replied that it was not an “adept of the Russian world” for him and asked “And the Opera House for you?” Otkovich recalled that the ruler of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin considers Odessa in the Russian city.
“Where are you working? What are you doing here?… Why are you not in trenches?” Trukhanov asked, accusing the military of “separating society.”
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Prehistory:
- At the end of September 2024, the Executive Committee of the Odessa City Council published a list of 19 architectural monuments that plan to dismantle in the near future. Among them are objects that contain the symbolism of Russian imperial policy.
- Among them were the monuments of Maxim Gorky, Isaac Babel, Chkalov and Vysotsky, several Pushkin monuments, the wall of the Chekists and the Lenin Order.
- Earlier, on September 20, the Odesa City Council and the chairman of the Odessa Ova Oleg Kiper proclaimed the intention to demolish the monument to Pushkin. It was then reported that a monument on Duma Square of the City Council should receive a response from UNESCO.