Kyiv Mayor: Zelensky turning Ukraine into authoritarian state just like Russia – IOTW Report

Kyiv Mayor: Zelensky turning Ukraine into authoritarian state just like Russia

NY Post: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is becoming an autocrat who is reshaping Ukraine into an authoritarian state no different than Russia, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has shockingly claimed.

Klitschko, a former heavyweight boxing champion-turned-politician, took the unprecedented step of publicly attacking Zelensky, an ex-comedian and actor, so vehemently for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 21 months ago.

While the pair have been political foes, such a blistering public condemnation was still shocking to many, given the country’s war crisis.

“At some point we will no longer be any different from Russia, where everything depends on the whim of one man,” Klitschko said in a new interview with the German news outlet Der Spiegel.

Klitschko, who has served as the mayor of Kyiv since 2014, praised his fellow mayors and regional governors for thwarting Ukraine’s descent into authoritarianism. more

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  1. 12-06-2023

    The body of a former Ukrainian opposition lawmaker, Ilya Kiva, has been found in Moscow Region, with one bullet to the head, Russian media reported on Wednesday. The politician was known as a staunch critic of President Vladimir Zelensky

    Kiva was a Ukrainian MP from 2019 to 2022 and a member of the ‘Opposition Platform – For Life’ party, which was officially banned by Kiev in June 2022.

    “… he slammed the US [Biden] and NATO for, as he said, using Ukraine as “bait” to provoke Russia into a conflict.”

    https://www.rt.com/russia/588625-zelensky-critic-dead-russia/

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