Slidstvo.Info journalist call-up: head of the Solomyansky enlistment office demoted

The head of the Solomyansky Territorial Staffing and Social Support Center in Kyiv has been demoted after an attempt to deliver a draft notice to a Slidstvo.Info journalist.

This is stated in the General Staff's reply to the request by "Ukrainian Pravda".

The letter notes that, as per the order of the UAF Commander-in-Chief, the head of the Solomyansky district enlistment office has been transferred to another place of service after the incident with the Slidstvo.Info journalist.

The General Staff explains that, according to this order, he will be demoted and transferred to a UAF combat unit.

The letter mentions that the decision was made after a thorough review of all the details of the incident.

On April 9, 2024, it was reported that Illya Vitiuk, chief of the SBU Department of Counterintelligence and National Information Security has been suspended from work by the SBU head Vasyl Maliuk for the time of the investigation into the incident reported by Slidstvo.Info.

The SBU head decided that while the investigation is ongoing, Vitiuk would serve in his Department's combat unit, which is carrying out defense tasks and taking direct action to destroy the enemy and their equipment at the front line together with the SBU's Special Operations Center "Alpha".

Background

On April 6, Slidstvo.Info reported that an SBU officer may have instructed an army staffing center to deliver a draft notice to their journalist. In this way, the special services wanted to punish the man for exposing the SBU head of cyber security Illya Vitiuk for owning elite real estate.

The Media Movement demands a police investigation into the SBU and the TSC officers in view of the incident with the Slidstvo.Info journalist.

On April 6, the UAF Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said that he had ordered an official inspection into the Slidstvo.Info report about an attempt to serve an army summons to their journalist following his investigation.

The SBU have said they were looking into the report by the Slidstvo.Info team about the the SBU allegedly using TSC officers to put pressure on journalist Yevheniy Shulhat following his investigation into the SBU's head of cyber security, Illya Vitiuk.

On April 8, 2024, the Prosecutor General's Office opened a case over the incident with summons delivery to Slidstvo.info journalist Yevheniy Shulhat.