Ukraine’s Zelenskyy revokes citizenship of numerous former politicians – National | 24CA News

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revoked the citizenship of a number of former influential politicians on Saturday within the newest of steps to “cleanse” the nation from pro-Russian influences.

“Today, I signed the relevant documents to take another step to protect and cleanse our state from those on the side of the aggressor,” Zelenskyy stated throughout his nightly video handle.

Zelenskyy wouldn’t record the names, however stated they’d twin Russian citizenship.

According to Ukrainian state media, the record consists of a number of prime politicians from the workplace of Viktor Yanukovych, who served as Ukraine’s pro-Russian president from 2010 till he was faraway from workplace in 2014.

The record included Dmytro Tabachnyk, former minister of schooling and science, Andriy Klyuyev, former deputy prime minister and head of Yanukovych’s administration and Vitaliy Zakharchenko, former inside minister, RBC-Ukraine news company reported.

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Ukraine has stripped various folks of their Ukrainian citizenship and has sanctioned a whole lot of Russian and Belarusian people and companies for the reason that begin of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February final yr.

(Reporting by Nick Starkov, David Ljunggren and Lidia Kelly;Writing by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne;Editing by Sandra Maler)