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Valentina Volodymyrivna Elias (Vynogradova)

(born November 6, 1963, Starokostyantyniv, Khmelnytskyi region, Ukraine)
– Ukrainian public and political figure, founder of the Ukrainian women’s
movement “Mothers of the World against War and Terrorism.”

Chairman of the Board of the “Charity Fund for Social Protection of War Invalids.” since 1999

General Director of LLC “UMTK “Stolytsia” Kyiv, since 12/27/2012

Editor-in-chief of the socio-political newspaper “Nedelka Stolychna” since 2013.

Editor-in-chief of television programs, Voice of Ukraine in New Jersey, “USA Media Corporation” since 2017.

Chairman of the Central Council of Public Institutions of the State Union of Ukraine “Center for Journalistic Investigations to

Counteract Raids and Corruption in State and Law Enforcement Agencies.” Kyiv, from 08/21/2021

Managing Partner of the law firm Elias and Lawyers LLC, Kyiv, from 06/22/2022

General Director of Ukrainian Illuminati LLC, from 11/19/2024, Warsaw, EU.

General Director of the media corporation Elias Media Group Corporation, New York, USA, from 11/22/2024
President of the America Ukraine Charitable Foundation, from February 14, 2025, Washington, USA.

AUTHOR OF PROJECTS:

  • “The Second World Journey of People’s Diplomacy” named after O. Koshits.
  • Chairman of the editorial board, editor-in-chief of the second reprint reprint for the 150th anniversary of the birth of O. Koshits “Ukrainian Song Abroad. World concert tour of the Ukrainian national choir under the pretext of O. Koshits (voice of foreign music criticism.)” (Paris 1929)
  • Founder of the project of financial support of small and medium-sized businesses “Ukrainian Illuminati” — “Business Angels in Ukraine.”
  • Founder of the creation of the international media holding “Ukrainian Information Space” (Kyiv-Warsaw-Paris-New Jersey-Washington)

AUTHOR AND TV PRESENTER OF THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS:

  • “Adult Education of Ukraine” with the assistance of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning with Professor S.I. Boltivets
  • “Leadership – 55.”
  • Donald J. Trump Peace Research Institute in Ukraine with Andriy Andrusyuk.
  • Ukraine without oligarchs.
  • “Ukraine without torture with Max Lyulin.”
  • International Tribunal for Journalistic Investigations of War Crimes against the Independent Ukrainian State of Ukraine.
  • About Patriarch Filaret and the only local church in Ukraine.
  • Charity program “Old people die without love.”
  • “Ukraine with Zhuravle” about local government reforms, with law professor Ya. V. Zhuravle.
  • Children of War: “Returning Children Home with Melania Trump.”
  • “Source of Hope” – about the rehabilitation of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with Pavlo Zhebrivsky.
  • About prisoners of war and missing persons with Mykola Linnyk.
  • About the life of Ukrainians in the occupied territories with Anatoly Shevchenko.
  • About the Land Bank with Serhiy Halakhin.
  • About the judiciary and judges who made illegal decisions with Serhiy Sakalosh.
  • About healthcare and the Law of Ukraine “Protection of Consumer Rights.”
  • About Ukrainian science, innovation and technology with academician Stanislav Kobylyansky.
  • Reflections on the view on the national idea with Pavlo Zhebrivsky.
  • About the People’s Government of National Trust of the Ukrainian SSR.

CHILDHOOD:
Born into a family of rural intelligentsia.

Father – Volodymyr Klymovych Mashtalar, born on April 17, 1940. He worked as a veterinarian on a collective farm in the village of Verkhnyaki, Khmelnytskyi region, Starokostyantynivskyi district.

Mother – Lyudmila Stepanivna Mashtalar, worked as the head of the village library in the village of Verkhnyaki,  tarokostyantynivskyi district, for more than 40 years.

The parents had four children – three daughters and one son.

Son – Mashtalar Oleksandr Volodymyrovych. Born on December 13, 1975.

He volunteered to go to war in March 2022 and died in the battles for Ukraine in the Zaporizhia region on July 18, 2023.

EDUCATION:
In 1983, he graduated from Myrolyubnye secondary school in the Khmelnytskyi region, Starokostyantynivskyi district.

Kyiv National University of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. 2004-2009 years of study. Received a lawyer’s degree.

WORK ACTIVITY:
From 1984 to 1989, he was a turner at the forging and pressing unit plant in the city of Starokostyantyniv.

From 1990 to 1998, he was the executive director, designer of the Konvaliya Industrial Complex in the city of Starokostyantyniv. (manufacturing of sewing and knitwear.)

Since 10.01.1999 – Chairman of the Board of the Charitable Foundation “Social Protection of War Invalids of Kyiv City.” General Director of LLC “UMTK “Stolytsia” (since 27.12.2012)

Managing Partner of the Law Firm LLC “Elias and Lawyers” since 22.06.2022

DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL SOCIETY/ PUBLIC-POLITICAL ACTIVITY:

Since 2000, she has been actively involved in community work.

From 2003 to 2009, she was the organizer and TV presenter of the All-Ukrainian Festival of Folk Art of Amateur Groups
“Your Veterans of Ukraine”, for which she received the honorary title “Honored Worker of the Social Sphere of Ukraine” from President Yushchenko.

Founder of the public movement “Ukraine, which fights.” 2011-2015

On November 30, 2016, at a meeting of the public movement “Ukraine, which fights” in the Ukrainian House in memory of the events on the Maidan on November 30, 2013 (the violent dispersal of students) – together with other women, she created the initiative group “November 30”, which later grew into the Ukrainian Women’s Movement “Mothers of the World against War and Terrorism.”

Founder and Head of the Center for Journalistic Investigations against Raids and Corruption in State and Law Enforcement Agencies.

Founder of the International Tribunal for Journalistic Investigations of War Crimes against the Independent Ukrainian State of Ukraine (established on October 7, 2024).

Founder and Head of the Center for Journalistic Investigations against Raids and Corruption in State Law Enforcement Agencies.
Founder of the program “55 Leaders Who Will Save Ukraine” and the People’s Government of National Trust.

On November 11, 2025, the NGO “Center for Journalistic Investigations” merged, the Central Council of which from May 30, 2020 to August 31, 2021 united 100 leaders, each of whom represents 10 non-profit public institutions of the GSU and created the Central Council, which elected Valentyna Elias as its head and merged with the GVS “Combat Brotherhood of Ukraine” led by Pavlo Zhebrivskyi, as a result of the merger, the People’s Government of National Trust of the GSU was formed with 22 public committees.

Valentyna headed the O. Koshits Committee for People’s Diplomacy. Pavlo Zhebrivskyi – the Committee for National Security and Defense.

AWARDS:
The title of “Honored Worker of the Social Sphere of Ukraine” on November 5, 2009.

Blessed diploma of Patriarch Filaret dated September 25, 2025. Medal “For Sacrifice and Love for Ukraine” from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate of Patriarch Filaret on November 6, 2025

On November 30, 2025, at a meeting of the People’s Government of National Trust, she was awarded the Order

“For Peace and Freedom of the Independent Ukrainian State of Ukraine”

HOBBIES:
She writes her own poems.

She loves political and detective films.

She created a collection of clothes in the “Boho” style with her own hands

(design, sewing, crocheting and knitting for her own use.)

She conducts master classes on creating amulets – motanka dolls and handmade feminine beauties.