Oleksiy Arestovych

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 Black Square Theater,[7] and left school.

He started conducting psychological seminars and trainings in 2000.[8]

In 2003, he entered the author's school “Man among People” by psychologist Absalom Podvodny, which he graduated in 2010.[9]

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[10] 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.[11]

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.[12][13][14][15]

Since 2014, he has been preparing combat units under the People's Reserve program,[16] 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.[17]

On October 28, 2020, Arestovych was appointed by Leonid Kravchuk Adviser on Information Policy[18][19][20] and official speaker of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine at the Minsk talks on resolving the War in Donbas.[19][21][22]

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.[23][24] 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.[25]

Oleksiy Arestovych was awarded:

• Commemorative badge of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (July 2014);
• Commemorative award of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “Yevhen Berezniyak”;
• Medal of the Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces “For Special Service” (July 2019);
• Distinction of the President of Ukraine “For participation in the anti-terrorist operation”;
• Breastplate “Badge of Honor” (May 2019).

• Oleksiy Arestovych on Telegram