Hennady Kernes, the mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, has died in Berlin where he was receiving treatment for COVID-19, his friend Pavlo Fuks, a Ukrainian businessman, announced on the Telegram messenger on Dec. 17.
“Coronavirus caused serious complications to (his) health. Eternal memory to you, my friend,” Fuks wrote on Dec. 17.
Kernes was transported to Berlin’s Charite hospital on Sept. 17. Earlier, Ukrainian media reported that the mayor had tested positive for COVID-19. His representatives initially denied that, but later acknowledged he had recovered from the virus. They said that he would return to Kharkiv before New Year.
Then, on Dec. 11, Kharkiv officials reported that both of Kernes’ kidneys had failed and he was receiving full dialysis in Charite.
Kernes had suffered from health problems since he survived an assassination attempt in April 2014. Since then, he had used a wheelchair for mobility.
Despite being hospitalized in Germany and out of the public eye for over two months, Kernes still managed to win another term as mayor during Ukraine’s local elections on Oct. 25, receiving 60% of the vote in the Kharkiv mayoral race. His party, the Kernes Bloc, also won the city council elections and the oblast council elections.
Kernes had served as mayor of Kharkiv, a city of 1.4 million people located 460 kilometers to the east of Kyiv, since 2010.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
(c) KyivPost
Guess there will be a new election in Kharkiv, now that this convicted criminal and Russian lover has kicked the bucket.
You either die from COVID or the vaccine. In his case not a too big loss from a political perspective.
I will take a chance on the vaccine 😉
Not the Russian one that Putin refuses to take? 😂
No, I will take the one developed by Muslims in Germany 😀
Well, it was a great time with you, my norwegian swede… 😂
Ukrutt forgår ikke så lett 😀
It was developed by both Germany and the USA.
Wrong!
“The scientists who developed the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are a Turkish-German power couple”
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/europe/biontech-pfizer-vaccine-team-couple-intl/index.html
Being Turkish doesn’t make him a muslim, the German might be though. 😂
I love to assume at this site that they are Muslims 😂
CNN…..
Bhaaaaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaa!!
Let me help inform you again, Mr. America hater:
“Albert Bourla, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pfizer. “As a U.S. company, today’s news brings great pride and tremendous joy that Pfizer has risen to the challenge to develop a vaccine that has the potential to help bring an end to this devastating pandemic.”
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-celebrate-historic-first-authorization
Here you can read about the lady that developed the vaccine together with her husband in the company BioNTech, a German based company now owned by Pfizer.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-biontech-german-ozlem-tureci-cancer-tech/6548020002/
German biotech firm BioNTech said on Tuesday it had secured almost $450 million in government funding to speed up work on its COVID-19 vaccine candidate and expand its production capacity in Germany.
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-germany-vaccine-idUSKBN2661KP
When the CEO says it’s an American company that’s good enough for me. Too bad you hate the USA Knut. What did the USA do to you?
You’re just like your cult boss, never admit that you was wrong 😉 It tell me a lot about your personality!
The news about the German-Turkish couple that developed the vaccine was all over the world, the same was it that they only received money from Germany to accelerate the development.
They was NEVER a part of OWS since they didn’t want to be involved in politics!
I have never denied that their company now is a part of Pfizer, but it is still a German division of Pfizer!
Can you even read?
“As a U.S. company, today’s news brings great pride and tremendous joy that Pfizer has risen to the challenge”
Show me that I’m wrong. I’m listening….something you don’t do….
Nope, he won’t be missed. The mafia will be queuing up to take his place.