{{Short description|State information and news agency of Ukraine}} {{Infobox company | name = National News Agency of Ukraine | logo = Logo Ukrinform.svg | native_name = Українське національне інформаційне агентство | type = State enterprise | foundation = March 16, 1918<ref>[http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/index.php?id=148&listid=66334 Ukrainian National News Agency UKRINFORM celebrates its 90th anniversary], National Radio Company of Ukraine (May 15, 2008)</ref><ref>[http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en/publish/article?art_id=13256968&cat_id=32740 On March 1 the national news agency Ukrinform launched Ukraine's first Internet radio service], Government of Ukraine (March 2, 2005)</ref> | location = 8/16, Bohdan Khmelnytskoho,<br /> Kyiv, Ukraine, 01001<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.ukrinform.net/info/contacts.html | title = Official website. Contact Us. ("Kyiv" spelling) | date = Mar 2017 }}</ref> | key_people = Oleksandr Kharchenko<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://photo.ukrinform.ua/ukr/current/photo.php?id=387169 |title=Official website |access-date=2011-12-19 |archive-date=2020-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721152846/http://photo.ukrinform.ua/ukr/current/photo.php?id=387169 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | industry = News agency | products = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | num_employees = | owner = Ministry of Culture and Information Policy | subsid = | homepage = {{URL|https://www.ukrinform.net|ukrinform.net}}<ref name="ukrinform-uatv"/><br />{{URL|https://uatv.ua/en/|uatv.ua/en/}} | footnotes = }}
The '''National News Agency of Ukraine''' ({{langx|uk|Українське національне інформаційне агентство}}), or '''Ukrinform''' ({{langx|uk|Укрінформ}}), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine. It was founded in 1918 during the Ukrainian War of Independence<ref name="Interview">{{in lang|uk}} [http://telekritika.ua/daidzhest/2008-03-17/37178 Українському національному інформаційному агентству «Укрінформ» — 90 років. Вітаємо!], Телекритика (March 17, 2008)</ref> as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press (BUP). The first director of the agency was Dmytro Dontsov, when the agency name was ''The Ukrainian Telegraph Agency''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ukrinform marks 100th anniversary of its foundation|url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/2422745-ukrinform-marks-100th-anniversary-of-its-foundation.html |website=ukrinform.net |date=16 March 2018 |access-date=21 May 2022}}</ref>
Ukrinform is Ukraine's representative of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) and the Black Sea Association of National News Agencies (BSANNA).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Information on Agency |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/info/about_agency.html |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=www.ukrinform.net |language=en}}</ref>
Ukrinform delivers news stories in Ukrainian, Russian,<ref name="ukrinform-uatv" /> English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Polish.<ref name=":0" />
==History== thumb|Previous logo of Ukrinform The state agency was established as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press (BUP) 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 (TASS). * 1918 – Bureau of Ukrainian Press * 1920 – All-Ukrainian bureau of the Russian Telegraph Agency (UkROSTA) * 1921 – Radio-Telegraph Agency of Ukraine (RATAU) * 1990 – Ukrainian National Informational Agency (UKRINFORM) * 1996 – State Informational Agency of Ukraine (DINAU) * 2000 – Ukrainian National Informational Agency (UKRINFORM) *2015 – Ukrinform became a part of the Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine (UA|TV)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-polytics/1927117-inomovlennya-uhvalili-v-drugomu-chitanni.html|script-title=uk:Рада ухвалила закон про іномовлення|agency=Ukrinform|language=uk|access-date=2019-03-03 |date=8 December 2015 }}</ref> *2018 – Ukrinform signed a co-operation agreement with the Athens–Macedonian News Agency (ANA) providing for an exchange of news items in all categories.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amna.gr/en/article/278520/ANA-signs-deal-with-Ukraines-Ukrinform|title=ANA signs deal with Ukraine's Ukrinform |agency=Athens-Macedonian News Agency|access-date=2019-04-30}}</ref> *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<ref name="pravda.com.ua-2025-02-26b">{{cite news |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/26/7500226/ |title=Russian Shahed drone attack kill surgeon and Ukrinform journalist in Kyiv Oblast: colleagues confirm married couple's death |first=Olena | last=Barsukova |date=2025-02-26|work= Ukrainska Pravda|accessdate=2025-03-18}}</ref><ref name="ukrinform.net-2025-02-26a">{{cite news|url=https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3964646-ukrinform-journalist-tetiana-kulyk-killed-in-russian-drone-attack-on-kyiv-region.html|title= Ukrinform journalist Tetiana Kulyk killed in Russian drone attack on Kyiv region |author=<!-- not stated -->|work= Ukrinform |date=2025-02-26|accessdate=2025-03-18}}</ref><ref name="womeninjournalism-2025-02-26">{{cite web|url=https://www.womeninjournalism.org/alerts/ukraine-journalist-tetyana-kulyk-killed-in-russian-drone-strike |title= Ukraine: Journalist Tetyana Kulyk Killed in Russian Drone Strike|author=<!-- not stated -->|website=womeninjournalism.org |publisher=Coalition For Women In Journalism |date=2025-03-09|accessdate=2025-03-18}}</ref> thumb|Corporate headquarters in Kyiv
==Outlook== Ukrinform's main objectives are the coverage of public policy and public life in Ukraine and providing information to government bodies; according to a Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine from February 19, 1997 the agency carries out its activities independently of political parties and public organizations.<ref name=decree>{{in lang|uk}} [http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=749-97-%EF Resolution of July 15, 1997 #749], Government of Ukraine (March 2, 2005)</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://web.ukrinform.com/web/default.php?lang=en |title=Through truth and objectivity |author=Victor Chamara, Director General Ukrinform |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706223609/http://web.ukrinform.com/web/default.php?lang=en |archive-date=2007-07-06 |work=Ukrinform}}</ref> In March 2022, the Institute of Mass Information recommended Ukrinform as a reliable and trustworthy media outlet.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ІМІ рекомендує читати новини з достовірних джерел. Список медіа|url=https://imi.org.ua/news/imi-rekomenduye-chytaty-novyny-z-dostovirnyh-media-spysok-i44370|website=imi.org.ua|accessdate=2022-04-25|language=uk-UA|archive-date=15 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315230132/https://imi.org.ua/news/imi-rekomenduye-chytaty-novyny-z-dostovirnyh-media-spysok-i44370}}</ref>
== Television == 201px|thumb|Logo of FREEДОМ '''FREEДОМ''' (formerly '''UATV''') is a Russian-language television news channel with focus on the Russo-Ukrainian War.<ref name="uatv.ua/about">{{cite web |url=https://uatv.ua/en/about-us/ |title=About us |website= |publisher= |access-date=8 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=14 December 2021 |title="DOM" AND UATV GOT 362 MILLION HRIVNYAS FOR NEXT YEAR |url=https://imi.org.ua/en/news/dom-and-uatv-got-362-million-hryavnyas-for-next-year-i42866 |work=Institute of Mass Information |access-date=8 June 2022}}</ref> It is transmitted live on its website, via satellite, and through cable television operators.<ref name="uatv.ua/about"/> It has content in English on YouTube.<ref>{{YouTube|channel=UCOmfcmDrWs7iJrXx7V5Cnwg|title=UATV English}}</ref> Prior to its temporary closure in January 2020, the channel also broadcast in English, Ukrainian, Crimean Tatar and Arabic.<ref name="ukrinform-uatv">{{cite web |url=https://www.ukrinform.net/info/uatv.html |title=UA-TV |publisher=Ukrinform |access-date=8 June 2022}}</ref><ref name="khpg-axes">{{Cite news |last=Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group |title=Ukraine axes English & Crimean Tatar TV to launch risky Russian channel for occupied Donbas and Crimea |url=https://khpg.org//en/1579377963 |access-date=2022-03-18}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.ukrinform.net/ Ukrinform - Ukrainian National News Agency (English)] * [https://www.ukrinform.ua/ Ukrinform - Ukrainian National News Agency (Ukrainian)] * [http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=749-97-%EF Agency's statute (Statement of the Cabinet of Ministers)] * {{YouTube|channel=UCOmfcmDrWs7iJrXx7V5Cnwg|title=UATV English}}<!-- "UATV is funded in whole or in part by the Ukrainian government" --> * {{Telegram | ukrinform_news }}
{{News agencies}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Ukrinform Category:1918 establishments in Ukraine Category:Institutions with the title of National in Ukraine Category:International broadcasters Category:Mass media in Kyiv Category:State companies of Ukraine Category:Ukrainian brands Category:Ukrainian news websites