Oleksiy Arestovych
Oleksiy Arestovych (; born 3 August 1975, Dedoplistsqaro, Georgia) is a Ukrainian presidential adviser, blogger, actor, political and military columnist. Arestovych is an organizer of psychological seminars and trainings and a charity fund for psychological support to the military. He is a speaker of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine and Adviser on Information Policy Head of the Ukrainian Delegation to the Minsk Group and Freelance Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak on Strategic Communications in the Field of National Security and Defense. Since February 24, 2022, Arestovych has been holding  daily briefings on the current situation regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as an Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. In 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Oleksiy became known with his 2019 prediction on the inevitable war with Russia. Early life. Arestovych was born in Dedoplistsqaro, Georgia. In 1992, he graduated from school № 178 in Kyiv. He entered the Faculty of Biology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 1993, Arestovych began to play in the modern Kyiv studio theater , and left school. He started conducting psychological seminars and trainings in  2000. In 2003, he entered the author's school “Man among People” by psychologist Absalom Podvodny, which he graduated in 2010. He also studied theology at the Superior Institute of Religious Sciences of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is an active blogger, with almost 200,000 followers on Facebook and more than 1.2 million (April 2022) on YouTube. Arestovych was among the top 100 bloggers in Ukraine in a poll published by Fakty ICTV in 2019. Military career. Arestovych is a graduate of the Odessa Military Academy, he has a diploma of military translator. According to data that need further confirmation, from  1994 to 2005 he worked in the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and is a reserve lieutenant colonel. Since 2014, he has been preparing combat units under the People's Reserve program, organizer of a charity fund to provide psychological support to the military in the ATO zone (2014—2017). From September 2018 to September 2019, he served in the environmental protection zone near Kramatorsk in the 72nd Mechanized Brigade as a scout. Political career. On October 28, 2020, Arestovych was appointed by Leonid Kravchuk Adviser on Information Policy and official speaker of the Ukrainian  delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine at the Minsk talks on resolving the War in Donbas. On December 1, 2020, the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak appointed Oleksiy Arestovych his freelance advisor on strategic communications in the field of national security and defense. Leonid Kravchuk, the head of the TCG, noted that Arestovych's candidacy was chosen because of his military experience and the presence of a vision and position on issues that are the subject of the TCG. Awards. Oleksiy Arestovych was awarded: