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title: "Fakes about the change in leadership of the POW Coordination Headquarters: refutation and facts"
description: "The Coordination Headquarters for POWs refuted fakes about a change in leadership: Oleh Ivashchenko and his team continue working on exchanges. 🇺🇦🚫 The department stated that rumors are part of an enemy information attack. ⚠️"
date: 2026-07-27T18:34:00.000Z
lang: en
url: https://xab.info/en/posts/fakes-about-the-change-in-leadership-of-the-pow-coordination-headquarters-refutation-and-facts
tags: [ukraine, oleg-ivashchenko, prisoners-exchange, disinformation]
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# Fakes about the change in leadership of the POW Coordination Headquarters: refutation and facts

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A new wave of fakes aimed at discrediting the work of state structures has erupted in Ukraine's information space. This time, the employees of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War are under attack. The department officially announced an intensification of information attacks by the enemy and urged citizens to remain vigilant.

### The staff has not changed: refutation of rumors

The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published a statement categorically refuting reports of alleged personnel changes in the leadership of the Coordination Headquarters. The official source emphasized that such news does not correspond to reality and is purely manipulative in nature.

The department provided a clear list of current leaders who continue to exercise their powers and work on the release of Ukrainians from captivity:

    - Head of the Headquarters — Lieutenant General Oleh Ivashchenko.

    - Deputy Head — Andriy Yusov.

    - Secretary of the Headquarters and Head of the Working Group on Exchanges — Brigadier General Dmytro Ussov.

Specialists note that the spread of false information about the change in leadership is a classic tactic aimed at undermining trust in institutions and attempting to disrupt current work on the release of prisoners.

### How the headquarters actually works

Despite the information noise, the work of the Coordination Headquarters has not only not stopped but is proceeding in the normal mode. The department reminded that, by direct order of the President of Ukraine, an active negotiation process for organizing the next exchanges is continuing.

The daily activities of the headquarters include a wide range of tasks:

    - Holding meetings with the families of missing persons and prisoners.

    - Processing incoming new information about the whereabouts of people.

    - Operating a specialized information system and a personal cabinet for relatives.

    - Implementing international support projects for the families of prisoners.

    - Promoting initiatives of the "I Want" series aimed at replenishing the exchange fund.

### Fighting disinformation

The case of fakes about the Coordination Headquarters is not isolated. Recently, the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) also exposed new lies of Russian propaganda. In particular, a message appeared on the Internet about the alleged rout of Territorial Defense Forces units in the Lyman direction.

CCD experts established that an artificially generated voice was used to create a convincing fake video, and the essence of the message had nothing to do with reality. The Coordination Headquarters urges Ukrainians to trust only official sources of information to avoid becoming victims of such manipulations.