Anait Khoperiia has been appointed acting head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, a decision announced on October 1, 2026, and reported by the NSDC on Facebook. On its own, the appointment reads like a routine administrative notice: a name, a title, a date, a decree. But behind that formal language is a deeply human story of preparation, persistence, and public service during one of the most volatile periods in modern history. Khoperiia is not arriving from outside, parachuted into an unfamiliar institution with a mandate to clean house. She has spent years…

In September, the world watched a grim escalation of the war in Ukraine: Russian forces launched more than three thousand jet-powered drones into Ukrainian skies in a single month. That number is hard to process, but behind it are countless human stories—families woken by sirens in the middle of the night, children huddled in metro stations, rescue workers digging through rubble, and exhausted soldiers scanning the horizon for the next incoming threat. It was against this backdrop that the UK Foreign Office announced a new and significant package of sanctions against Russia. The package consists of thirty-one new measures, and…