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The Kiev Pechersk District Court dismissed the mayor of Cherkasy, Anatoly Bondarenko, for satisfying the lawsuit against the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. The mayor of Cherkassy demanded to recover from the president a moral damage hryvnia and to refute the statement in which he said that he “will not sit at the same table with bandits” as the mayor of Cherkassy.
The Kiev Pechersky District Court, in a meeting on October 1, rejected the lawsuit of the mayor of Cherkasy Anatoly Bondarenko against the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, on the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation, the decision it was published in the Unified Register of Court Decisions on October 8.
The mayor of Cherkasy asked the court to recover a moral damage hryvnia from Zelensky, after he said: “I can’t even talk about the mayor of Cherkasy. I don’t even know how to speak when the mayor has 19 criminal proceedings. Who? I will not sit at the same table with those bandits. “
The mayor’s attorney, commenting on the filing of the claim in court, said: this is the “answer” to the fact that “Zelensky called Bondarenko a bandit. “They asked to refute this sentence as inaccurate information. The names of the president and the mayor were not indicated in the judicial decision, but the circumstances of the case and the contested quote indicate that it is precisely Zelensky and Bondarenko.”
The court decided that Zelensky’s sentence, against which Bondarenko appealed, was his value judgment, which does not contain deliberately false information.
The controversial phrases of the president express his personal and subjective attitude towards: 1) the possibility of having commercial, friendly or other relations (“I will not sit at the same table with those bandits”) with an official who, in the opinion of the head of state , improperly fulfills duties, as a consequence of subjective and critical evaluation of the public activities of said person by the President of Ukraine; 2) guarantee democracy as a condition for the liberalization of the country, even in the event that the electorate elects a person with inappropriate qualities for public office, according to the personal conviction of the President of Ukraine, for this (“please choose bandits if you want “)”, – said in the court decision.
Bondarenko was elected mayor of Cherkassy in 2015.
In May 2020 Bondarenko became a defendant in the scandal associated with the coronavirus epidemic. The Executive Committee of the City Council decided to mitigate in Cherkasy quarantine restrictions from May 1 – even before the nationwide weakening began. The intention of the Cherkasy authorities was criticized by the central authorities.
On May 1, Zelenskiy conveyed “greetings” to Bondarenko from the Ukraine Security Service and the Interior Ministry, and on May 20 he said that he would not sit at the same table “with those bandits.” On May 26 it was known that the mayor went to court.
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