Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Jose Manuel Pinto Teixeira has said he is surprised at the long absence of Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky from the city.
"I don’t know whether the mayor is now in Kyiv. There was a man who was elected a few years ago, who allegedly still exists, but who has disappeared from the city and from his administrative post. And now I would like to ask you whether anyone knows any European capital… in which there is no mayor?" he said at a lecture at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy on Wednesday.
Currently, Chernovetsky spends practically no time in Kyiv.
In fact, many of his duties are performed by Head of Kyiv City State Administration Oleksandr Popov.
