Zarivna left the OP, but not the state: what will Yermak’s ex-advisor do now?
24 July 23:01
Daria Zarivna, a freelance adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, has resigned from her post but will continue to work on the return of Ukrainian children abducted by the Russian occupiers. She said this in a commentary to Detector Media, noting that her last day at the Office was July 4, 2025, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports.
“I confirm my resignation. My last day of work was July 4,” she wrote in response to the publication’s request.
Despite the end of her work in the state structure, she does not stop working in the humanitarian field. According to Detector Media’s sources, Zarivna will continue to coordinate the Bring Kids Back UA program, an initiative that unites the efforts of government agencies, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations to return Ukrainian children illegally taken by Russia from the temporarily occupied territories.
Currently, Oleksiy Tkachuk is coordinating the communication direction in the team of the Presidential Administration, sources in the Office of the President also said.
It is expected that in the near future Daria Zarivna will provide a detailed public commentary on her dismissal and further plans.
What you need to know about Daria Zarivna, former advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office
Daria Zarivna was born on July 4, 1989, in Kherson.
She graduated from the Law Faculty of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She also completed a course in strategic marketing at Stanford University and a course in values and societies at the Aspen Institute Kyiv.
She started her journalistic career at the fashion newspaper Playing Fashion. Later, she worked for the Ukrainian Fashion Channel and was the editor-in-chief of its website.
In 2014-2017, she was the editor-in-chief of L’Officiel Online. In 2014, she launched the magazine’s website. She also hosted the White Shirt program on Aristocrats radio and founded the Youtube podcast What Are You Doing?
Zarivna is also a co-founder of Charitum, an online charity auction platform, and Elevate Conference, a conference for media professionals. She was a director at the ANGRY advertising agency. In 2018, she also founded Vector, an online technology and business magazine. Later, she launched the communication and PR agency Vector PR.
Prior to joining the civil service, she was involved in the media business, including fashion journalism, and charity.
In June-August 2019, she was a communications adviser to the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDCU), which was headed by Oleksandr Danyliuk at the time.
In February 2020, she was appointed a freelance communications adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, immediately after he replaced Andriy Bohdan. Liga.net wrote that Zarivna, together with Mykhailo Podoliak, was responsible for the information unit of the Presidential Office. She started working with Yermak on a pro bono basis in September 2019, when he was still an assistant to President Volodymyr Zelenskyi. In particular, she provided communication support for Yermak’s trip to Donbas with a delegation of foreign ambassadors, and was present at Yermak’s scandalous meeting with Brian Lanza, an American lobbyist close to Trump.
In January 2022, Daria Zarivna was invited to join the newly created Presidential Youth Council.
In the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion, she delivered regular information digests on behalf of the Office of the President of Ukraine. She was responsible for information support of the Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian and Social Issues under the Presidential Office, headed by Andriy Yermak. In addition, Zarivna was responsible for the communication support of the prisoner of war exchange.
The official also joined a number of other working groups established at the Presidential Office after the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. Thus, Zarivna is a member of the International Working Group on Investigation of Russia’s Environmental Crimes against Ukraine, a member of the working group on hunger prevention (humanitarian food program Grain from Ukraine) and a member of the OECD Anti-Bribery Working Group. She is also the Chief Operating Officer of Bring Kids Back UA, a campaign to protect Ukrainian children deported by Russia.
Prior to that, in April of the same year, Zarivna started working at the International Working Group on Sanctions against Russia (the Yermak-McFaul Sanctions Group) as a communications manager.
In July 2022, she became the project manager of the International Working Group on Security Assurances for Ukraine (the so-called Ermak-Rasmussen group).
In November and December 2023, she was a member of the Ukrainian delegation during two working visits of the Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak to the United States.
It is known that Daria Zarivna is raising her daughter alone. She was the wife of lawyer Andriy Dovbenko, who was called the “watchdog” of the Ministry of Justice during the presidency of Petro Poroshenko. The couple divorced in 2017.
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