Paragraph 1 On an ordinary morning in a country living through an extraordinary war, Ukrainian social media began to fill with a familiar and unsettling sound: calls for people to take to the streets, gather on Maidan, and demand that the government change its course. The messages seemed to speak directly to real wartime exhaustion. They asked for children to return to school, for soldiers to come home, for elections to be held immediately, and for an end to mobilization. On the surface, these are things many war-weary citizens genuinely crave. But according to the National Security and Defense Council’s…

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed decree No. 971/2026, officially relieving Andrii Kovalenko of his duties as head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council, according to UNN. The news arrived through official channels not as a scandal but as a transition. For those who follow Ukraine’s fight against Russian propaganda, Kovalenko’s name has become synonymous with a tireless, often invisible struggle. The center, a small but critical institution, sits at the intersection of media analysis, strategic communication, and national security. It is where lies are studied, exposed, and countered, where narratives are tracked across social…