Hrytsak also called unacceptable the existence of the so-called suicide promotion communities in these networks, attracting and ultimately affecting minors.

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"What kind of company would tolerate the existence of such social communities? Moreover, there was no reaction to our appeal over the existence of anti-Ukrainian communities. In fact, there are many of them. We revealed about 800 anti-Ukrainian communities in these networks," Hrytsak told journalists in Kyiv on Thursday.

He has noted that one of the organizers of such communities is Sergey Alexandrovich Zhuk, aka "Moscow", a Moscow resident who had earlier fought against Ukrainian troops in eastern Ukraine alongside Donbas militants. "As soon as he was exposed, he deleted his account from the network, but we still have screenshots."

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On May 17, the presidential decree came into force.