Center for Countering Disinformation

The Center for Countering Disinformation (Ukrainian: Центр протидії дезінформації, romanized: Tsentr protydii dezinformatsii) is a working body of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine established in accordance with a decision of that council dated March 11, 2021 "On the creation of the Center for Countering Disinformation", and enacted by Presidential Decree No. 106 of March 19, 2021.

The Center ensures the implementation of measures to counteract current and projected threats to Ukraine's national security and national interests in the information sphere, ensuring Ukraine's information security, identifying and counteracting disinformation, effectively countering enemy propaganda, destructive information influences and campaigns, and preventing attempts to manipulate public opinion.

Established on March 11, 2021, it is a body of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

On April 2, Polina Lysenko was appointed head of the center by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's decree. She previously held the position of assistant to the first deputy director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine in 2015–2019 and worked in the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office in 2019–2020.

The center started functioning on April 6, 2021.

On May 7, 2021, by his Decree No. 187/2021, the President approved the regulation which stipulates that the center is subordinated to the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, the general direction and coordination of its activity is performed by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. The center employs 52 people. The regulation also defines the concept, aims, functions, and basic rights and responsibilities of the center.

On August 19, 2021, the head of the Center Polina Lysenko took maternity leave, and the duties of the head of the center were entrusted to her first deputy Andriy Shapovalov.

On April 20, 2023, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, by his decree No. 233/2023, dismissed Polina Lysenko from the post of head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, according to the submitted application.