Oleksiy Arestovych submitted his resignation as an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday after comments he made about a Russian missile hitting an apartment building in Dnipro.
After the strike in Dnipro on Saturday, Arestovych said the Russian missile that hit the building may have fallen after it was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses. The comments drew heavy criticism in Ukraine, leading Arestovych to say that no one would blame Ukraine for the incident since it happened as Russia was bombarding the country.
The Kremlin denied that Russian forces targeted the apartment building and pointed to Arestovych’s comments. “The Russian armed forces have not been delivering strikes on residential buildings … You could see statements by some [Ukrainian] officials about that tragedy having been caused by an air defense counterattack,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Ukrainian military officials denied that air defenses shot down the missile. They said it was a Kh-22 anti-ship missile and insisted Ukrainian forces don’t have the capability to intercept them. According to Ukrainian authorities, the strike on the apartment building killed 44 people, including five children.
Arestovych ultimately apologized for his remarks and submitted a resignation letter on Tuesday. “Wrote a resignation statement. I would like to show an example of civilized behavior: a mistake in principle, therefore, resignation,” he wrote on Facebook.
In his apology, Arestovych said he was sorry “to the victims and their relatives, the residents of the Dnieper and everyone who was deeply wounded by my premature error version of the reason the Russian missile hit a residential building.” Arestovych also hit back at the criticism, saying, “The level of hate towards me is incomparable with the consequences of an error on the air.”
It’s hard to deny this guys comment since Ukrainians used their air defense system to fire inside Poland.
Yeah, there is that too. The Ukies are on record as being liars. They lied about Snake Island. They lied about the “Ghost of Kiev.” They lied about their own missile landing in Poland. They lie, and lie, and lie. IMO, everything they say should be considered a lie unless it is against interest (as was the aide’s initital assessement here) or can be verified conclusively by objective proof.
Fake resignation. Just theater.
(Sarcasm Alert) When was it ever (did I say ever?) an “example of civilized behavior” to resign if you said something against propaganda that might have actually been the truth? Let’s all hold hands with Zelensky and pray to return to the serenity of the CIA narrative: “Lord Zelensky, we ask your forgiveness. The Russians waste perfectly good bombs on civilian buildings and maternity hospitals because they are bad and stupid. Their Generals can only manage to get themselves killed. Ukraine is leading the world against evil. So pure are our intentions to join NATO, that the entire world is ready to die in a nuclear war to make it happen…” Sorry guys. For the record, I started the day promising not to make a sarcastic comment. All it took was that comment and I just couldn’t help myself.
Poor advisor forgot that he’s participating in a religious faith where Russia simply cannot do anything right and thus must not ever be shown to have possibly not been at fault. Facts do not matter … Russia is wrong no matter what. For his heresy, he’s being hounded by the true believers.
As Alexis Mercouris says on YouTube, Arestovych is Zelensky’s spin doctor. He is the one who tells Western media what to write. There is no issue where he hasn’t been lying. He claimed that a Russian missile landed in Poland long after it was obvious it was a Ukie missile. When Ukie air-defense missiles fall in residential areas he always claims it’s Russian missiles. When Ukie artillery is placed in the streets, preferably near civilian buildings, and Russians fire at them, Arestovych is there to claim the Russians are “firing at civilians”. Likewise when Ukie soldiers were holed up in an abandoned hospital and an abandoned school.
Arestovych has been lying every day for a year – and long before that, pretending that Russia was “de facto occupying” Donbass, not that Kiev was bombarding the civilians.
The root cause of this atrocity; Russian Full Scale Invasion of Ukraine.
Desperate Putin with an incompetent Army with mediocre weapons attacking civilian infrastructure for months. He owns this mess and now he is admitting it.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vladimir-putin-i-could-never-have-foreseen-2022s-unexpected-crises-that-i-created
Don’t dare to state the truth. All the western media have already spread the story of the”murderous Russian assault on a residential building”.
And this us how wars are lost. Publicly humiliate anyone that provides bad news so that only the official narrative is ever reported
The African, Middle Eastern, and Asian nations have been alerted that Ukrainian officials are no longer credible.
Europe and the US, of course, will treat them as the deciders of what is true and what is false.
Zelensky tells Americans to make sacrifices for Ukraine
The Ukrainian leader said that helping his country should be more important for Americans than domestic concerns
I didn’t notice this last July. The little man sure is full of what passes from his bowels…