Spokesman for the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Cherevatyi heads the state news agency Ukrinform
On 24 May, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy replaced the director general of the state news agency Ukrinform. He was replaced by the spokesman for the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Serhiy Cherevatyi.
The press service of the ministry reported this.
"In wartime, its main task is to cover the Ukrainian resistance in the international information space and focus the world’s attention on supporting our country," said Rostyslav Karandieiev, head of the Ministry of Culture.
Cherevaty is a strategic communications specialist with a PhD in political science. From the beginning of the full-scale invasion, as the deputy for strategic communications of the then commander of the Khortytsia operational and strategic group, Oleksandr Syrskyi, he organised an information headquarters in Kyiv.
Later, he worked as a spokesman for the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In January 2024, he joined the secretariat of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.
On 30 April 2024, he was appointed Head of the Department of Military Journalism at the Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
He replaced Oleksiy Matsuka, who had been heading the agency since November 2023, as Ukrinform’s director general.
Matsuka himself told Detector Media that he was resigning for health reasons and "due to the emergence of ideas for new projects" that he intends to develop. He also added that he did not yet know whether these projects would be implemented at Ukrinform or in other media.
24 May 2024 г., 22:07
