AboutThe fis of the President of Ukraine accepted the resignation of freelance adviser Alexei Arestovich One of the main speakers of Kiev resigned after a scandal broke out because of his words about a rocket hitting a house in the Dnieper
Alexey Arestovich
The office of the President of Ukraine granted the request of Alexey Arestovich to dismiss from the position of a freelance adviser, said the press secretary of the President Sergey Nikiforov, writes “Ukrainian Truth”.
The corresponding order has already been signed, Nikiforov said.
Arestovich got into the center of the scandal after claiming that a rocket that hit a residential building in the Dnieper was shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces. After that, the adviser apologized several times for the disclosure of unverified information.
“I sincerely apologize to the victims and their relatives, residents of the Dnieper and everyone who was deeply hurt by my premature erroneous version,” Arestovich wrote in his telegram channel, stressing that he had made a serious mistake on the air.
He also noted that his mistake brought neither reputational nor legal consequences for Ukraine.
Despite the apologies, the freelance adviser to the president was still sharply criticized by both the military and local authorities in the Dnieper. The Mayor of Dnipro, Boris Filatov, called on the SBU and the Ukrainian counterintelligence to respond to Arestovich’s statements. “I have been saying since the first day of the war that Arestovich is a narcissistic brute and a slop mouth,” Filatov wrote in Telegram. And the commander of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mykola Oleshchuk, said that “there are no firing means in the Armed Forces of Ukraine capable of shooting down this type of missiles.”
On the afternoon of January 17, Arestovich submitted his resignation. He explained this decision by the desire to show an example of “civilized behavior”.
The entrance of a multi-storey building in the Dnieper collapsed after an explosion on the evening of January 14. Before that, an air alert was declared throughout the country, and the authorities reported on the work of the air defense. About 200 people lived in the entrance that collapsed, said Deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine Kirill Tymoshenko. According to the latest data of the authorities, 44 people were killed, said the mayor of Dnipro Boris Filatov.
Arestovich, according to him, served in the Ukrainian army until 2005, worked in military intelligence. After 2005, he began to engage in political activities. He opposed the “Orange Revolution” and regularly traveled to Russia, participating in the activities of the “International Eurasian Movement” founded by Alexander Dugin. In parallel, he starred in commercials and TV series of Russian and Ukrainian production (for example, “The Return of Mukhtar”). After 2014 and the beginning of the conflict in Donbass, he acted as a military expert in the media,actively maintained his blog. For some time he served in the combat zone. On October 28, 2020, Arestovich was appointed speaker of the Ukrainian delegation in the Trilateral Contact Group, and in December – freelance adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine on strategic communications in the field of national security and defense. After February 24, Arestovich became one of the most famous speakers of official Kiev and gave numerous media comments on the situation in the war zone.
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