The DBR reacted to the loud wedding in Lviv. On the DBR website, it urges Ukrainians to trust only official sources of information, carefully check the facts, and be sure to refer to the original sources of information.
The communications adviser of the State Bureau of Investigations, Tetyana Sapyan, said this while commenting on a media story about a high-profile wedding in Lviv, in which a former employee of the SBI appeared.
“In the story of the high-profile wedding in Lviv, the key fact is that the bride is a former employee of the Terupravlinna DBR in Lviv. She was dismissed from the SBI almost two years ago by order,” Tetyana Sapyan explained.
“Therefore, the SBI cannot and does not bear any legal or moral responsibility for her actions,” the communications adviser noted.
She also added that during the war in Ukraine, information security is an essential component of the country’s overall security.
“We live in a crazy flow of information, into which misinformation, IPSO, distorted facts are dragged. The DBR urges Ukrainians to trust only official sources of information and if the news contains dubious facts, it is imperative to contact the original source,” said Tetyana Sapyan.
She explained that this should be done because some media, in order to increase views, omit important information in order to add scandal to the news.
Tatyana Sapyan also added that holding an expensive wedding during the war is a matter of civil conscience.
“You shouldn’t associate luxury weddings with the newlyweds’ former jobs. This is a question of their family’s wealth and civil conscience during the war,” said Tetyana Sapyan.
What is known about the wedding?
About a week ago, social networks and the media discussed the wedding of Rostyslav Ilnytsky and Roksolana Moskva in Lviv. In particular, they raised the issue of the appropriateness of lavish parties during the war.
The publication Lviv.Media wrote that for two days, on October 7-8, in the five-star Emily Resort complex, near Lviv, prosecutors, former employees of law enforcement agencies, SBI, tax office and deputies celebrated a wedding.
Journalists assumed that the wedding could cost a lot. According to preliminary estimates by confectioners, only a two-meter wedding cake was worth about UAH 100,000, the publication wrote.
According to Lviv.Media, on the first day of the wedding, Oleksandr Ponomaryev, Olga Polyakova, and the Sun Bells band performed at the wedding. The host was showman Hryhoriy Reshetnik.
The journalists also claim that the father of the young man, Vasyl Ilnytsky, called them and asked not to publish material about the wedding, saying that he helps the army a lot.