Ukrinform
The National News Agency of Ukraine, or Ukrinform, is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine. It was founded in 1918 during the Ukrainian War of Independence as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press. The first director of the agency was Dmytro Dontsov, when the agency name was The Ukrainian Telegraph Agency.
Ukrinform is Ukraine's representative of the European Alliance of News Agencies and the Black Sea Association of National News Agencies.
Ukrinform delivers news stories in Ukrainian, Russian, English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Polish.
History
The state agency was established as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press in 1918, yet since then it went through a series of reorganizations. During the Soviet period, it was associated with Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union.- 1918 – Bureau of Ukrainian Press
- 1920 – All-Ukrainian bureau of the Russian Telegraph Agency
- 1921 – Radio-Telegraph Agency of Ukraine
- 1990 – Ukrainian National Informational Agency
- 1996 – State Informational Agency of Ukraine
- 2000 – Ukrainian National Informational Agency
- 2015 – Ukrinform became a part of the Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine
- 2018 – Ukrinform signed a co-operation agreement with the Athens–Macedonian News Agency providing for an exchange of news items in all categories.
- 2025-02-25 - Tetiana Kulyk, editor-in-chief of the multimedia department and the host of patriotic Nation of Invincibles project, was killed in a night-time drone attack by Russia on her home
Outlook
parties and public organizations.
Per day Ukrinform issues reports in English, German, Ukrainian, Polish, French, Spanish, Japanese. Ukrinform delivers information to the media, TV channels, radio stations, official establishments and local governments, foreign embassies and Ukrainian diplomatic missions abroad and foreign media. In March 2022, the Institute of Mass Information recommended Ukrinform as a reliable and trustworthy media outlet.