Heads of all creative and production divisions of the Volyn Regional State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company issued a statement in defense of their general director Sviatoslav Pyrozhko, in which they refute accusations of censorship and pressure on journalists, and political bias of the company's management, – the Western Information Corporation's own correspondent reported on September 1. \n \nChief editors of the TVP of VODTRK Mariia Andrushko, Vasyl Fedchuk, Yuliia Romaniuk, Tamara Kulish, and the responsible editor of the Lutsk city radio broadcasting editorial office Halyna Bihun, who signed the statement, note Sviatoslav Pyrozhko's high professionalism as a journalist and as a manager, as well as his achievements at the Ukrainian and international levels. \n \nThey also point to the "inadmissibility of using young people for outright lies, slander and blackmail commissioned by those who want to see 'their own person' at the head of the television and radio company." \n \nThe statement was sent to the head of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine Ivan Chyzh, the heads of the regional council Vasyl Dmytruk and the regional state administration Volodymyr Bondar, the regional organization of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, the mass media, as well as the regional organization "National Alliance." \n \nAmong journalists of Volyn there are rumors that Volodymyr Bondar has allegedly already submitted the candidacies of journalists Olha Bodenkova and Sviatoslav Zelinskyi for approval as heads of the company. \n