Kyiv, December 10 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – The post of Deputy Minister of Information of Ukraine can be taken by Russian Sergei Loiko, who works for the American newspaper Los Angeles Times and the radio Ekho Moskvy. The head of the Ministry of Information, Yuri Stets, stated this on Espresso TV.
According to him, the issue of Loiko’s refusal of Russian citizenship and adoption of Ukrainian is now being resolved.
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“I received the go-ahead that Sergei Loiko, a Los Angeles Times correspondent in Moscow, will work in this ministry as a deputy, and we will now discuss the situation in which he will be ready to renounce Russian citizenship and take Ukrainian citizenship. I think that it is precisely such specialists who will work in the ministry,” Stets said.
Sergei Loiko is a graduate of Moscow Pedagogical University; before his career as a journalist, he served in the Strategic Missile Forces. He gained fame after a series of reports from areas of military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also described the war in eastern Ukraine. For his publications on the Ekho Moskvy website, Roskomnadzor issued a warning against publishing materials that “justify the practice of committing war crimes.”