Ukrinform

Ukrinform is listed as Center on Crosswire: news agencies supply reporting to outlets across the whole spectrum, which rewards a deliberately neutral news style.

Read Ukrinform beside another title from Ukraine and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Agency copy is written to be resold to outlets across the spectrum, so Ukrinform is a useful baseline: compare its plain account of an event with how partisan titles in Ukraine headline the same wire story, and the framing each adds becomes visible by subtraction. Because Ukrinform is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Ukraine either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

Ukrinform is one of 5 outlets tracked in Ukraine, and one of 2 news agencies among them — the other being UNIAN. By outlets tracked, Ukraine ranks 36th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 6 of the 51 news agencies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Ukrinform outside Ukraine, starting with Central and Eastern Europe, are BelTA (Belarus), TASS (Russia) and ANSA (Italy). Opening one of them beside Ukrinform is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.