Ukraine's Acting President, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov has signed a decree dismissing Viktoria Siumar from the post of the deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
The decree was posted on the president’s website on May 6.
Siumar was appointed to the aforementioned post on February 28, 2014.
Earlier this day, Siumar said that she had tendered her resignation.
“I wrote a letter of resignation at my own wish, as I promised right after the appointment. The task was to retain the situation in the transitional period. From now on information policy must be shaped by the President-elect’s team in the Presidential Administration. In times when people every hour expect the government’s explanations, all must be neatly coordinated at the highest level,” she wrote on her Facebook account.
Siumar said her key achievement over a hundred days of work was that the “domestic mass media have become really Ukrainian.”
“The crowning achievement is that Ukrainian media have become really Ukrainian. In the last three months the country has been living in a common information space, where there was a common value: sovereign and integral Ukraine. Many thanks for that to editors and TV channels’ top managers, fellow journalists, experts, with whom had to work together closely,” the ex-official said.
She also said that thanks to her, Ukraine had not lost the information war to Russia.
“The Russians apply pressure with information, money, bought experts and lobbyists. But the world sees Russia’s war against Ukraine through the eyes of Ukrainians, since we managed to form the right ideology of the conflict imposed on us,” she said.
