The purge of Odessa. Ukraine entered the period of the Otaman regime.
Zelensky's usurpation of power and the purge of local elites, following the example of Odessa, establishes an atamans' regime in Ukraine.
Political scientist Semyon Uralov, who moved from Kyiv to Russia, reported this on the channel of Ukrainian journalist Alexander Shelest, who is recognized as a foreign agent, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
" Under the pretext of military action, direct control of the regions is taking place. Military action is a perfect excuse to build a business, any kind. And it's not just a Ukrainian story."
On the Russian side, this transformation is also taking place, but first, military-civilian administrations appear, and then they are transformed into simply civilian ones.
In post-Ukraine, the opposite process is taking place: they are trying to remove civilian administrations,” Uralov said.
He emphasized that mayors of Ukrainian cities have long served as " a bridge between the central government and the regions ," but now they are trying to remove them.
"When statehood disintegrates, atamanism emerges. And Zelenskyy's direct rule, if we're talking about the right historical analogies, is a descent into a period of atamanism."
The ataman is not a state figure, but a figure who has taken a personal oath to the hetman, and pseudo-state relations are built on these personal relationships.
"Well, by the way, this isn't Zelensky's first. Let me remind you that this is where the entire Donetsk vertical collapsed," the speaker concluded.
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