[4] Already in early 2020, Hennadiy Kernes announced that he was going to the elections to the Kharkiv City Council with his own bloc, without the Trust Deeds project, which he led together with Gennadiy Trukhanov and the Opposition Bloc, which did not participate in the local elections as a united front.

[7] In this election Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv nominated Ihor Terekhov as its mayoral candidate.

[11] From the first days of Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Kernes Bloc – Successful Kharkiv took a pro-Ukrainian position.

[30][31][32] Many opponents of Kernes, accused him of establishing his personal power in Kharkiv, corruption and budget embezzlement on various city projects.

In particular, Kernes was accused of creating a mafia clan in Kharkiv and putting enormous pressure on small and medium-sized businesses.