Klychko expands powers: Kyiv City Council supported the decision that outraged the head of KCMA Tkachenko

Klychko expands powers: Kyiv City Council supported the decision that outraged the head of KCMA Tkachenko

The head of the KCMA responded to a project submitted to the Kyiv City Council by the mayor, which proposes transferring all the levers of city management to the civil administration, reducing control from the deputies, while simultaneously freeing up their hands.

The head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, Tymur Tkachenko, expressed his indignation at Vitaliy Klychko’s intentions to limit his powers. As the Informator has already reported, the mayor launched his initiative back on March 11, 2025, by submitting a project to the Kyiv City Council, with which the role of its executive body is assigned specifically to the KCSA, rather than the KCMA (Klychko must approve all the deputies’ orders with his signature). In addition, the mayor is granted new powers. A provision is being removed from the regulations whereby he must coordinate KCSA’s decisions with the city council commissions.

Tymur Tkachenko clearly stated his position regarding Klychko’s legislative initiatives on social media. He emphasized that the mayor is granting himself excessive powers, while the military administration is being deprived of the right to issue its own orders, changing the current "status quo" that was established in the capital after Tkachenko’s appointment as head of the KCMA.

"The Mayor of Kyiv is pushing through a decision that deprives the KCMA of the right to issue orders — and transfers this right to himself. Vitaliy Volodymyrovych, only the person who appointed the head of the military administration during martial law can take away his powers. Not someone who has forgotten that Kyiv is not a private company," Tkachenko said.

The head of the KCMA emphasized that several decisions have recently been made at his initiative that have improved the lives of the city’s residents. In particular, he mentioned unblocking transport during alerts and removal of abandoned and charred cars from courtyards. A "systematic monitoring of the capital’s budget expenditures and tenders" has also been implemented.

"Don’t like that someone is truly working for the people? If you govern the state the way you run the Kyiv City Council meetings — that’s not the best pre-election advertisement," Tymur Tkachenko added, hinting at the political ambitions of the mayor.

Why is this important?

An interesting collision has arisen in Kyiv where one of the active parties in the political conflict — the "central government" with the President-appointed head of the KCMA, Tymur Tkachenko — believes that during martial law, all KCSA’s powers should be transferred to the military administration. Kyiv City Council Deputy and head of the "Servant of the People" faction, Andriy Vitrenko, directly stated: according to his logic, during martial law, the KCSA was "reformatted" into the Kyiv City Military Administration (KCMA, headed by Tkachenko), so the position of "head of KCSA" does not exist — let us remind you, this position is held by Vitaliy Klychko.

For his part, the elected mayor is trying to prevent the reduction of his powers. A paradoxical situation arises where the law does not provide a clear answer to the question of who truly has power in the city. The distribution of powers is prescribed so vaguely that each party can interpret it in their favor, and Klychko’s fate now depends on whether he can retain his authority and prevent a "Chernihiv scenario" from playing out in Kyiv.