The head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, Kyrylo Budanov, will pay a fine for using the Russian language during the incident in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka near Kyiv. This was reported by the Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language, Olena Ivanovska. According to her, Budanov admitted the violation of language legislation and agreed to pay the penalty within the established deadlines.
“The fact of the violation has been acknowledged without attempts to find justification or trigger defensive reactions,” Ivanovska stated. Legal procedures have already been launched, and the estimated fine ranges from 3,400 to 6,800 hryvnias.
The reason for the proceedings was Budanov’s communication in Russian during the clashes in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, where civilians stormed a torture chamber for deserters.
