Volodymyr Bondar claims that after he became acquainted with the information presented in the article, he experienced psychological overstrain and his physical condition deteriorated to such an extent that it could lead to the impossibility of performing his official duties. \n \nIn order to protect in court his right to refute inaccurate information about himself, guaranteed by the Constitution of Ukraine, Volodymyr Bondar sent to the Lutsk City and District Court a statement of claim for the protection of honor, dignity, business reputation and compensation for moral (non-pecuniary) damage. The reason for filing the statement of claim was an article published on September 9, 2005, on the website of the information agency "Western Information Group" 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.'" Let us recall that this article contained statements by the head of the Volyn Regional Committee of Youth Organizations, Oleksandr Hil. It also refers to Volodymyr Bondar's involvement in the scandal with railcars of imported cocoa mix that were detained by law enforcement officers in Volodymyr-Volynskyi (). \n \nAs stated in the statement of claim, "the information disseminated on the aforementioned website, namely that 'under the guise of cocoa mix they imported sugar,' does not correspond to reality" and discredits the plaintiff as an official of a state executive authority body — a civil servant, since the events to which the latter is allegedly connected indicate a violation of the ethics of a civil servant and the basic principles of civil service regulated by Articles 3 and 5 of the Law of Ukraine "On Civil Service." \n \n"Becoming acquainted with the above-mentioned information on September 13, 2005 led to psychological overstrain, which negatively affected my health, in connection with which I was forced to seek medical assistance. For some time I, as an individual, could not perform my official duties, which led to a disruption of the normal rhythm of work and the cancellation of responsible meetings that had been planned. In particular, given my poor state of health caused by the above-mentioned false information, I was unable to be present at a meeting of the special working group on organizing interaction between law enforcement and regulatory bodies to counter smuggling activity, which had been planned for September 13 of this year," the statement of claim says. As noted in the statement, the plaintiff's "relations deteriorated with his wife, a physician by profession, who after the publication of this false information was forced to justify herself before her colleagues and patients, as well as with his parents, who painfully perceive negative information." \n \nGuided by Articles 15, 16, 297 and 1167 of the Civil Code of Ukraine, Art. 47 of the Law of Ukraine "On Information," the plaintiff asks the court to grant the claim; to recognize that the information set forth by the defendants in the article "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'" does not correspond to reality and defames the honor, dignity and business reputation of the plaintiff; to obligate the information agency "Western Information Corporation" to publish the operative part of the decision in the same section and in the same font as the refuted report in the next regular issue from the day the decision enters into legal force; to recover the moral damage caused.