Aleksey Arestovich, who said on social networks that something worthy of attention is developing in Ukraine only until activists take it up, received a rather harsh response both from the activists themselves, and from politicians and citizens.

" The person who sends the message. No more. And some of these messages are not only strange, but very moronic and harmful,” said lawyer, founder of StateWatch Oleksandr Lemenov, noting that it is activists who have been moving Ukraine since 2014, since the beginning of the war, and sometimes, including dying at the front.

Lesya Litvinova, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the SVOI Charitable Foundation, noted that everything in Ukraine amazes and inspires, until Arestovich talks about it.

She recalled the funeral of activist Roman Ratushny, who at a very young age managed to do much more for the state than almost twice the elder Arestovich.

“I’m trying to imagine people who would come to the funeral of Arestovich. And I do not see a single face of those with whom it is not a shame to be near. Maybe sometimes you need to get out of your bubble. But I'm comfortable there.. Along with " And, thank God, without Arestovich,” she added..

Former Defense Minister Anatoly Gritsenko points out that with a dirty information attack on Ukrainian activists, Arestovich finally opened up and showed his real face..

" Zelensky must separate from the two-handed stamp. So that the mug does not stick to him. And the activists will defend themselves - as they defended and are now defending Ukraine. From mediocrity, traitors and corrupt officials in power. Scattered around the skins of a still unkilled bear, ready to rip apart the Recovery Fund. That's why the attack on activists? Burned in advance,” he wrote..

Vitaly Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, notes that Arestovich’s statements are part of a deliberate deployment of a negative narrative against activists who, after the war, will fight against theft of funds, force them to make reforms and ask a number of very unpleasant questions.

“This part of the Zelensky team considers activists to be their enemies, and therefore unfolds a narrative against us. By the way, as you understand, their enemies are not only activists. The following narratives they will deploy against volunteers and the military. The active part of society is the natural enemy of corrupt politicians in any country in the world,” Shabunin wrote..

Activist Sergei Sternenko reproached Arestovich for the fact that while he is sitting in Kyiv and writing his insulting posts, real people, including activists, are bent on the battlefields.

“Listen, Aleksey Arestovich, Roman Ratushny, also an activist, died in battle so that you, while sitting in Kyiv, could, among other things, fight out about which activists are bad and evil No. 1,” he wrote and advised the speaker of the OP to move to the DPRK where there are no activists.

Mikhail Zhernakov, Chairman of the Board of the Dejure Foundation, noted that Arestovich's personality is unworthy of such a reaction, because "

However, a year later, he added that if the authorities are testing a message that they would like to use themselves through the mouth of Arestovich about “bad activists”, then they should ask the previous president and his team about such an experience, who also said that they “would have won without volunteers”.

Journalist Vadim Karpyak stressed that since Aleksey Arestovich is a freelance adviser to the head of the OP, he is not on the staff and does not receive a salary in the president’s office, the activist himself and his statements are a little self-indulgent.

Bihus journalist. info Maxim Opanasenko asks the Office of the President whether these statements can be considered the position of the entire vertical of power.

“If not, then take away from the worthless access to the network, please,” he added.

The day before, Aleksey Arestovch, speaker of the President's Office, said in his Telegram channel that the world can only be good without activists..

“Ukrainian culture strikes and delights. Until the activists were allowed there. … Agro innovations, banking, e-government, even the Armed Forces – we demonstrate world models that he is crazy about and wants to reach. There are no activists yet,” he wrote..