Oleksii Arestovych

Since 24 February 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.

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.

Since the start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Arestovych has been holding daily briefings on the current situation, as an adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. These videos garnered him a significant following. In 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Arestovych became known for his 2019 prediction on the inevitability of a war with Russia.

In August 2022, Arestovych announced that he plans to run for the presidency of Ukraine if Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not run for a second term.

On 28 October 2020, Arestovych was appointed by Leonid Kravchuk as 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 1 December 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.

From September 2018 to September 2019, he served in the Joint Forces Operation near Kramatorsk in the 72nd Mechanized Brigade as an intelligence officer.

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 Anti-terrorist Operation Zone (2014—2017).

At the beginning of 2009, together with Korchynsky, he organized the citizens' initiative "Get everyone out", the task of which was "to get the authorities to solve the main problems of small and medium-sized enterprises and the country's motor carriers".

In June 2009, he was appointed deputy head of the Primorsky District Administration of the Odesa City Council, but he was dismissed after three months at his own request.

In 2005, Arestovych joined the far-right Brotherhood political party, led by Dmytro Korchynsky. In that period, he repeatedly took part in conferences and events of the Eurasia Movement of Aleksandr Dugin, where he actively opposed the Orange Revolution. Arestovych, as the Deputy Chairman of Korchynsky's Brotherhood Party, appeared next to Dugin in Moscow and delivered a speech against the prospect of Ukraine's NATO and EU integration. Arestoych said that "the West cannot give Ukrainians the opportunity to preserve their culture, but instead will begin to reprivatize strategically important objects. Ukrainian factories will be taken over by Washington and Brussels."

In 2003, he entered the author's school "Man among People" by psychologist Absalom Podvodny, which he graduated in 2010.

He started conducting psychological seminars and trainings in 2000.

Arestovych is a graduate of the Odesa 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.

In 1993, Arestovych began to play in the modern Kyiv studio theatre Black Square Theater, and left school.

In 1992, he graduated from school No. 178 in Kyiv. He entered the Faculty of Biology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Oleksii Mykolaiovych Arestovych, or Oleksiy Arestovych (Ukrainian: Олексій Миколайович Арестович; born 3 August 1975) is a Georgian-born Ukrainian intelligence officer, Lieutenant colonel, blogger, actor, political and military columnist. He was a speaker of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine. Currently works as a National Security and Defence Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak.