Oleksii Arestovych
Oleksii Arestovych | |
|---|---|
Олексій Арестович | |
Arestovych in 2022 | |
| Adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine | |
| In office 1 December 2020 – 17 January 2023 | |
| President | Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
| Speaker of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine | |
| In office 28 October 2020 – 22 February 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Alexey Nikolaevich Arestovich 3 August 1975 Dedoplistsqaro, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (now Georgia) |
| Nationality | Georgian Ukrainian |
| Political party | Independent |
| Other political affiliations | Brotherhood (2005–2010) |
| Spouse | Anastasia Hrybanova |
| Children | daughters Aelita and Veronika, son Alexander |
| Education | Odesa Military Academy Superior Institute of Religious Sciences of St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Alma mater | Odesa Military Academy |
| Occupation | Ukraine's Presidential Office adviser, intelligence officer, analyst, politician, theologian |
| Awards | |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Ukrainian Armed Forces |
| Branch/service | 1) Chief Directorate of Intelligence 2) 72nd Mechanized Brigade |
| Years of service | 1994–2005, 2018–2019 |
| Rank | Lieutenant Colonel |
Oleksii Mykolaiovych Arestovych (Ukrainian: Олексій Миколайович Арестович; born 3 August 1975) is a Ukrainian political adviser, former military officer, and columnist. He is also a theologian and the founder of the Apeiron School. Arestovych was a speaker for the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine. He worked as a Strategic Communications Adviser for the Office of the President of Ukraine from December 2020 to January 2023.
He is an active blogger, with almost 830,000 followers on Facebook and more than 1.71 million on YouTube, as of December 2023. Arestovych was among the top 100 bloggers in Ukraine in a poll published by Fakty ICTV in 2019.