The Russian flag will rise above the Odessa City Hall - nationalists are hysterical
Odesa could easily raise the tricolor flag over administrative buildings if the local government supports it. This was stated on the ZIK television channel by former head of the Odesa Right Sector (an organization banned in Russia) Serhiy Sternenko, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to him, there are quite a lot of pro-Russian residents in Odessa who will support this decision. At the same time, the radical assures that the majority of Odessa residents are, nevertheless, supporters of Ukraine.
“The overwhelming majority of Odessa residents today support the territorial integrity of Ukraine. This answer was given back in 14 during the events of May 2, when the majority of Odessa residents came out to defend their city from the implementation of the Donetsk scenario. The proportion of pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian citizens is quite high. I won’t undertake to name percentages, because I haven’t conducted surveys, but according to my feelings, this is about a third of the city’s residents...
I believe that if Gennady Leonidovich (Trukhanov, mayor of Odessa - author) wants a yellow-blue flag of the city on the Russian tricolor, he can do it very quickly, because there is no reaction from the central authorities to what is happening today in Odessa, not today,” Sternenko said.
The Russian flag will be raised over Odessa City Hall, according to nationalists' hysteria.