21 Facts About Oleksii Arestovych

Oleksii Mykolaiovych Arestovych is a Ukrainian political adviser, former military officer, and columnist.

Oleksii Arestovych is a theologian and the founder of the Apeiron School.

Oleksii Arestovych worked as a Strategic Communications Adviser for the Office of the President of Ukraine from December 2020 to January 2023.

Oleksii Arestovych is an active blogger, with almost 830,000 followers on Facebook and more than 1.71 million on YouTube, as of December 2023.

Oleksii Arestovych was among the top 100 bloggers in Ukraine in a poll published by Fakty ICTV in 2019.

Oleksii Arestovych is the third child of Nikolai Arestovich, a Belarusian Pole and Tamara Arestovich, a Russian from Voronezh Oblast.

In 1993, Oleksii Arestovych began to perform in the modern Kyiv studio Black Square Theater.

Oleksii Arestovych studied theology at the Superior Institute of Religious Sciences of St Thomas Aquinas.

Oleksii Arestovych has developed a diverse and comprehensive understanding of religious beliefs and theology.

Oleksii Arestovych has delved into a wide range of religious literature, analyzing prominent texts in Sufism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity.

From 1994 to 1998, Oleksii Arestovych attended Odesa Military Academy, from which he graduated as an Officer with a specialization in battle application of mechanized units and a minor in Military Translation.

Oleksii Arestovych was preparing combat units and was one of the organizers of a charity fund to support this initiative.

On 28 October 2020, Oleksii 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.

Kravchuk, the head of the Trilateral Contact Group, noted that Oleksii 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 Trilateral Contact Group.

Oleksii Arestovych held informal daily conversations covering the invasion on lawyer Mark Feygin's YouTube channel.

Oleksii Arestovych is an organizer of psychological seminars and trainings and a charity fund for psychological support to the military.

On 14 January 2023, Oleksii Arestovych made a comment that a Russian Kh-22 missile had destroyed a multi-story residential building in Dnipro after the missile had been hit by a Ukrainian air defence counterattack.

In November 2023 Oleksii Arestovych argued that next Ukrainian elections should be conducted in March 2024 despite the ongoing war in order to legitimize the leadership of the country.

Oleksii Arestovych previously criticized Volodymyr Zelensky and his administration of making inadequate decisions and strategic mistakes during the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Oleksii Arestovych later left Ukraine saying that he feared being arrested.

Oleksiy Oleksii Arestovych began his teaching career in 2000 and established the Apeiron School for Leadership Development in 2013 as an online institution.