«This is the first time I have heard about it. If they had informed me, I would have been present»: deputy Chaika said that he was not invited to the in-person session of the Mykolaiv City Council

Vladyslav Chaika, deputy of Mykolaiv City Council, Photo: InsheTV

A deputy of the Mykolaiv City Council elected from the banned party «Opposition Platform «For Life», Vladyslav Chaika said that he was not warned about the offline session of the city council.

He said this in a comment to the correspondent of NikVesti.

As you know, today the deputies of the city council will partially gather for a meeting of the city council session in an offline format, but the voting will take place online in the Zoom application.

«This is the first time I've heard this from you. I have not received any invitation to an in-person meeting. So, the media have been informed, but the deputies are being treated selectively? As usual, I received an invitation to a Zoom session, which I do not consider to be protected from interference. Meetings should not be held online, where it is not known who is logged in. If I had been informed that we would have an offline meeting, of course, I would have been the first to attend,» said Vladyslav Chaika.

As a reminder, the sessions of Mykolaiv city and regional councils are currently held online. Over the past four years, members of the regional council have met offline only a few times, including in November 2024, May 2025 and October 2025.

The mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, believes that holding sessions online has not affected the work of the city council.

Recently, it became known that the city council has not shown the faces of its deputies for two months as a confirmation of their personal presence at the meetings of the sessions, which have been held via video conferencing for four years.

Following this, Ukrainian blogger and author of the telegram channel «Lachen writes» Ihor Lachenkov called on Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych to hold a city council meeting offline.