The editor-in-chief of the online publication "Western Information Corporation" Ihor Balynskyi, as he promised in the corresponding letter-address () written to Volodymyr Bondar, left in the reception room of the head of the Volyn Oblast State Administration the promised 500 hryvnias for the latter's "moral suffering" as support for "civilized initiatives regarding those in need." That is precisely why he was late for the press conference for local mass media that took place today in Lutsk. The reason for Mr. Balynskyi's visit to Volyn was to familiarize himself with the textual content of the lawsuit filed by Mr. Bondar to the Lutsk City-District Court for the protection of honor, dignity, business reputation and compensation for moral (non-material) damage, following the article published on September 9, 2005 on the website of the information agency "Western Information Corporation" under the headline: "Oleksandr Hil: I believe that the President of Ukraine will have enough courage to dismiss also those representatives of state administrations who have compromised themselves locally."

During the press conference, Ihor Balynskyi reported that the text of the lawsuit gives grounds to doubt that Volodymyr Bondar is a professional politician and official due to the "inadequacy" of the content of the corresponding document: due to publications on the ZIK website, the latter, quoting the text of the lawsuit, "...Normal life relationships were disrupted, communication with work colleagues and neighbors became complicated," led to "psychological overstrain," "relations with his wife, a doctor by profession, worsened, who after the publication of this false information was forced to justify herself before her colleagues and patients..."

"The governor, having the experience of a politician in the Verkhovna Rada, having already certain experience as an administrator, has not learned to communicate and work with local mass media; I have formed the impression that, using ZIK as an example, someone from his entourage wanted to assert themselves in the media space not only in Lutsk but also in western Ukraine, showing, as if to say, 'we can put someone in their place' – it won't work, because there are very many absurd things in the lawsuit," Balynskyi stated. According to the latter, it became known that before the court hearing scheduled for January 12, 2006, an expert examination of the medical certificate that was attached by Mr. Bondar to the lawsuit will be presented.

As the editor-in-chief of "Western Information Corporation" asserts, in the "civilized political world the mass media are a third party and evaluating claims materially against the mass media is considered not entirely proper." "In this case I understood that he (in this context the reference is to Volodymyr Bondar – author) decided to evaluate himself, it seems to me that he 'undersold' himself a little," emphasized Ihor Balynskyi.