The administrative manager of the executive committee of the Kakhovka City Council, Vitaliy Chernyavskyi, has been working for at least two years in occupied Crimea at a school illegally established by the Russians, where he teaches children a Russian version of history and participates in propaganda events.
This is reported by the Center for Journalistic Investigations citing its own and occupation sources.
According to the Center for Journalistic Investigations, since December 2023 Chernyavskyi has worked as a teacher of history and social studies at the occupation school in the village of Uhlove (Adzhi-Bolat) in the Bakhchysarai district of Crimea. Judging by the school’s posts on social networks, he implements Russian educational standards and systematically engages in ideological conditioning of children.
His wife, Yana Chernyavska — the former head of the territorial social services center of the Kakhovka city council — also worked for a time at the same occupation school. She participated in propagandistic cultural events dedicated to Russian literature.
Despite working for the occupation administration, Vitaliy Chernyavskyi still formally holds the position of administrative manager of the executive committee of the Kakhovka city council. Moreover, by decisions of the Odesa District Administrative Court and the Fifth Administrative Court of Appeal, he is to be paid over 300 thousand hryvnias due to the unlawful suspension of his employment relations since June 2024.
The head of the Kakhovka City Military Administration, Vitaliy Nemerec, confirmed to the Center for Journalistic Investigations that he knows about Chernyavskyi’s work in occupied Crimea, but there is currently no evidence that he holds a Russian passport. According to the official’s colleagues, Chernyavskyi said he received a housing certificate from the Russians and moved to Crimea, where his wife’s relatives live.
At the same time, as the Center for Journalistic Investigations notes, the city military administration had the opportunity as early as 2025 to lawfully stop paying Chernyavskyi’s salary and avoid additional budget expenditures, but this was not done.
“I am not going to pay him a salary and I will defend this right in the Supreme Court,” Nemerec said.