Serhiy Kostynskyi

Serhiy Anatoliyovich Kostynskyi
Native name	Сергій Анатолійович Костинський
Born	(1982-01-29) 29 January 1982 Pervomaiske Raion, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Allegiance	Ukraine
Service / branch	Territorial Defense Forces
Years of service	2022 - present
Unit	241st Territorial Defense Brigade
Battles / wars	Russo-Ukrainian war Full-scale invasion of Ukraine Battle of Kyiv
Alma mater	Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University

Serhiy Anatoliyovich Kostynskyi (Ukrainian: Сергій Анатолійович Костинський; born 1982) is a Ukrainian journalist, soldier and political adviser, who served as a member of the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine between 2015 and 2020.

Education and career

Kostynskyi was born and raised in Pervomaiske, a district capital in northern Crimea. He attended the Tavrida National University in Simferopol and graduated in 2004 in the field of political science. After graduating from university, Kostynskyi stayed in Simferopol and worked as an editor for a number of local newspapers and private companies.

After the beginning of the Russian occupation of Crimea in early 2014, Kostynskyi left the peninsula for mainland Ukraine and started to work as a freelance columnist for the Ukrainian branch of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

On 14 September 2015, President Petro Poroshenko appointed Kostynskyi as a member of the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine. He was dismissed from his post by the newly elected president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in early 2020.

Military service

Following the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Kostynskyi and other journalists and political activists from Crimea like Pavlo Kazarin, Volodymyr Balukh, Oleksandr Liev and Ismail Ramazanov joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and took part in the Defence of Kyiv.