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Anastasiia Bratkova

Chief Brand, Marketing & Communications Officer, RSECo-founder, Bratkova & Nadtochiy Strategy Communications Studio

Anastasiia Bratkova is the communications strategist who signs off every Pocket PR plan.

A newspaper reporter from 2013, she now runs communications in defense tech and energy, where every word gets checked, and before that built a fashion-art brand that walked runways in Kyiv and Brussels and sold in Berlin.

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Anastasiia Bratkova in a grey suit at a gallery

Where our lead expert's projects appeared

  • Harper's Bazaar ItaliaOVERALL, 2021
  • UkrinformOVERALL, 2021
  • 1+1OVERALL, 2021
  • DSnewsOVERALL, 2021
  • Creativity UkraineOVERALL, 2021
  • L'OfficielOVERALL, 2021
  • NVOVERALL, 2021
  • TelegrafPeaceful Sky, 2022
  • Tochka.netOVERALL, 2021

Coverage of projects Anastasiia Bratkova founded or co-organised before Pocket PR. Not coverage of Pocket PR or its clients.

Track record

Anastasiia Bratkova track record

Twelve public projects tied to her name or to brands she founded, each one named in a published source.

Runway backstage scene for the OVERALL years, generated, no real people

Illustration

  • 2026

    UniCities Transition Lab Forum

    Spoke for RSE at the EU co-funded forum on Ukraine's green urban recovery.

    UniCities

  • 2025

    Sikorsky Challenge school

    Taught startup founders the balance between transparency and confidentiality.

    Sikorsky Challenge

  • 2022

    Brussels Fashion Week

    OVERALL opened the EBRD-backed programme for Ukrainian designers on 5 October.

    Brussels Fashion Week

  • 2022

    Peaceful Sky, Denmark

    Co-organised an 80 metre shadow of the Mriya on a Danish field with the Embassy of Ukraine.

    Telegraf

  • 2022

    BREAD&SALT agency

    Owner of an international communications agency, named in national press.

    Telegraf

  • 2021

    OVERALL in Berlin

    Harper's Bazaar Italia featured OVERALL among Ukrainian brands to watch; it was sold at Bikini Berlin.

    Brussels Fashion Week

  • 2021

    Ukrainian Fashion Week

    Runway show at Mystetskyi Arsenal with national TV presenters walking in OVERALL.

    Ukrinform, Tochka

  • 2021

    Open call for artists

    12 winners chosen from more than 280 applications, with the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation.

    L'Officiel Ukraine, DSnews

  • 2020

    Founded OVERALL

    An art-fashion brand that licenses Ukrainian art and pays the artists royalties.

    Ukrinform, Wikipedia UA

  • 2016

    Baltic-Black Sea Forum

    Communications for a Kyiv forum with five former presidents of the region.

    Novomedia Forum

  • 2015

    New Year on Sofia Square

    Her team created the concept for Kyiv's main New Year celebration.

    Novomedia Forum

  • 2015

    PR Assistant agency

    CEO and owner, working with Forbes-list business leaders and co-organising US Embassy events.

    LIGA.net, Novomedia Forum

The studio

Bratkova and Nadtochiy studio

Bratkova & Nadtochiy Strategy Communications Studio, co-founded with Kateryna Nadtochiy, works on positioning, crisis communications and an AI audit of how a brand shows up in AI answers.

  • An independent PR consultant since May 2015, by her own profile, and owner of the PR Assistant agency from that year
  • Energy communications since 2015 and defence communications since 2018, each role dated under Career

Career

Anastasiia Bratkova career

From newspaper reporter to head of brand and communications at an energy engineering company.

Newsroom desk scene for the journalism years

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The last three rows are RSE milestones from her time there, credited to the company.

  1. 2013

    Reporter at Segodnya, later Vesti, Publichnye Lyudi and Reporter

    Segodnya, Novomedia Forum
  2. 2015 to 2022

    Clear Energy, PR strategy and stakeholder relations for energy willow. Co-founded by Andrii Grinenko, later the founder of RSE

    LinkedIn
  3. 2016 to 2020

    Dream Town shopping centre in Kyiv, PR and reputation

    LinkedIn
  4. 2018 to 2021

    Octava Defence, communications strategy for a cybersecurity operator

    LinkedIn
  5. 2022 to 2024

    Octava Capital, reputation strategy and the launch of DHUB, a defence innovation hub

    LinkedIn, ProIT
  6. 2025 to now

    Ukrainian Council of Defence Industry, Strategy Advisor and Head of Comms

    LinkedIn, Facebook
  7. 2025 to now

    RSE s.r.o., Chief Brand, Marketing & Communications Officer

    LinkedIn, RocketReach
  8. 27 Aug 2026

    RSE opens the Energy Resilience Lab at Kyiv Polytechnic

    Company milestoneKPI
  9. 7 Sep 2026

    RSE signs the Skawina II supply deal with ResInvest Energy Polska, about 300 MW

    Company milestonePAP MediaRoom
  10. 16 Sep 2026

    RSE enters the US market with a release from Dallas

    Company milestonePR Newswire

Her name on your plan

What she signs on every plan

  • The story angles for your 90 days
  • The pitch text before a human sends it
  • The crisis line, what we say if things go wrong
  • The monthly report, with reprints left out of the count

Press and stage

In the press and on stage

Empty conference stage before a session

Illustration

  1. Ukrinform

    2021

    Twice, as founder of OVERALL

  2. L'Officiel Ukraine

    2021

  3. Harper's Bazaar Italia

    2021

    OVERALL among Ukrainian brands to watch

  4. Telegraf

    2022

    Peaceful Sky

  5. DSnews

    2021

  6. LIGA.net

    Author page

  7. Tochka

    2021

  8. Creativity Ukraine

    2021

  9. Abramovych.Art

    2021

    Interview

  10. Brussels Fashion Week

    2022

    Designer page

Speaking and teaching

  • UniCities Transition Lab Forum II, speaker for RSE, 29 January 2026
  • Sikorsky Challenge startup school, lecture on transparency and confidentiality, 14 April 2025
  • Novomedia Forum in Kyiv, a session on owning a PR agency before 30, November 2017
  • LIGA.net, columnist

Sectors

  • Defense and dual-use tech
  • Energy and industrial engineering
  • Cybersecurity
  • Technology and telecom
  • Fashion, art and cultural diplomacy

Ukrainian, Russian and English.

Questions

Questions about the team

Who is behind Pocket PR?

Anastasiia Bratkova, a journalist turned strategist who works mostly in defense tech and energy, with the Bratkova & Nadtochiy team.

Does Anastasiia write every pitch herself?

The team writes the pitches, with AI tools used for research and monitoring. She signs off the angles, the pitch text, the crisis line and the monthly report, and a person sends every pitch.

Which sectors does she know best?

Defense and dual-use tech and energy first. Cybersecurity and technology companies come next, then the arts.

Where is she based?

She works between Kyiv and Brno.

How do I reach Pocket PR?

Use the contact page for a 15-minute diagnosis or to talk to the team under NDA, or message @PocketPRbot on Telegram. A person answers on business days.

Sources

Next step

Talk to the team

Anastasiia and a partner read every request. A mutual NDA before any confidential brief.

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