Vladyslav Atroshenko

Vladyslav Anatoliyovych Atroshenko (Ukrainian: Владислав Анатолійович Атрошенко; born 5 December 1968)[1] is a Ukrainian politician who is currently serving as the mayor of Chernihiv since 2015.

Vladyslav Atroshenko

In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections, he was elected for the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity".[2] In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections, he was elected for Native Home.[3]

Biography

Atroshenko is a former Ukrainian MP, last serving from November 2014 to January 2016. He was elected in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election on a ticket from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc (as a non-partisan) in single-member constituency 206 (located in Chernihiv, he won the constituency with 51.34% of the votes).[4][3] In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Atroshenko was elected in the same constituency as a self-nominated candidate (with 40.64% of the votes).[5][3] In parliament he joined the Party of Regions faction.[3] In the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was elected in single-member constituency 207 for Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine Bloc.[3] In 2006, he unsuccessfully ran for parliament on the electoral lists of the Our Ukraine Bloc.[3]

Atroshenko voted for dictatorial laws on January 16, 2014.[6]

On 4 February 2005, Atroshenko was appointed Governor of Chernihiv Oblast, and on December 12 of the same year he was dismissed.[3] In the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, Atroshenko was elected a deputy of the Chernihiv Oblast Council for the Strong Ukraine party.[3]

In February 2022, during the Siege of Chernihiv, he organized the resistance to the Russian attack on the city. On 2 March, he predicted that urban warfare in the city was possible.[7] Two missiles hit a hospital in the city during the day, according to the health administration chief, Serhiy Pivovar.[8]

On 10 March, he said that Russian forces had completely encircled Chernihiv, adding that the city was completely isolated and that critical infrastructure for its 300,000 residents was rapidly failing as it came under repeated bombardment.[9]

On March 25, 2022, he shot a video from his car showing the destruction of Chernihiv, and on March 26, he reported that more houses were destroyed than intact.[10][11]

On December 16, 2022, it became known that he wrote a statement to the SBU and the police. Atroshchenko believes that he is constantly being watched. Prior to that, the Yavoriv District Court of the Lviv Region removed the mayor of Chernihiv from his post because at the beginning of the war, he took his family out of shelling in an official car. The "Chesno" movement, the Association of Cities of Ukraine, the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, lawyers and other experts called it political pressure on mayors and an attack on local self-government.[12]

See also

References
  1. "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  2. Poroshenko Bloc's Atroshenko wins Chernihiv mayoral election – Central Election Commission, Interfax-Ukraine (18 November 2015)
  3. Small biography on Vladyslav Atroshenko, Civil movement "Chesno" (in Ukrainian)
  4. "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  5. "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  6. Поіменне голосування Archived 2020-02-25 at the Wayback Machine про проект Закону про внесення змін до Закону України «Про судоустрій і статус суддів» та процесуальних законів щодо додаткових заходів захисту безпеки громадян (№ 3879)
  7. "Chernihiv mayor to residents: No other choice but to brace for urban warfare". Ukrinform. Government of Ukraine. 2 March 2022. Archived from the original on 3 March 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  8. "Sorting fact, disinformation amid Russian war on Ukraine". ABC News. Photograph by Efrem Lukatsky (AP Photo). American Broadcasting Company. Associated Press. 3 March 2022. Archived from the original on 3 March 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. Santora, Marc (10 March 2022). "Ukraine Live Updates: Russian Forces Encircle Some Cities as Diplomacy Falters". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 March 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  10. "Chernihiv Mayor drives through damaged city". www.euronews.com. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  11. "Sindaco Chernihiv, città completamente distrutta". www.ansa.it. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  12. Мер Чернігова Атрошенко заявив, що за ним стежать: деталі
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