Буданов сплатить штраф за російську мову – омбудсменка
What happened
Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Presidential Office, will pay a fine for speaking Russian during the 2 November events in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, said language ombudsperson Olena Ivanovska.
Budanov acknowledged the language-law violation, and the legal procedures are already under way, Ivanovska wrote on Facebook.
She said state oversight of the case continues under the established procedure, and contact with Budanov was calm and within the legal framework.
Ivanovska urged people not to turn the incident into a pretext for social-media hate campaigns.
She said each person can slip up under stress, but a mature society shows it by admitting the mistake and taking responsibility.
On the evening of 2 November, unrest broke out in the village near Kyiv after online posts claimed people were being held illegally in a building used to house National Guard servicemen.
“A state governed by law differs from chaos in that a mistake is recorded, acknowledged and corrected lawfully, not by lynching on social media.”
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- 2026-11-07 11:57 UTCУкраїнська правда · pravda.com.ua ↗
- 2026-11-07 12:36 UTCУкрінформ · ukrinform.ua ↗
- 2026-11-07 12:41 UTCNV · nv.ua ↗
- 2026-11-07 12:46 UTCРадіо Свобода · radiosvoboda.org ↗
- 2026-11-07 14:34 UTCУНІАН · unian.ua ↗
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