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Native name | Українське національне інформаційне агентство |
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| Company type | State enterprise |
| Industry | News agency |
| Founded | March 16, 1918[1][2] |
| Headquarters | 8/16, Bohdan Khmelnytskoho, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01001[3] |
Key people | Oleksandr Kharchenko[4] |
| Owner | Ministry of Culture and Information Policy |
| Website | ukrinform.net[5] uatv.ua/en/ |
The National News Agency of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Українське національне інформаційне агентство), or Ukrinform (Ukrainian: Укрінформ), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine. It was founded in 1918 during the Ukrainian War of Independence[6] 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.[7]
Ukrinform is Ukraine's representative of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) and the Black Sea Association of National News Agencies (BSANNA).[8]
Ukrinform delivers news stories in Ukrainian, English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Polish.[8]
- ^ Ukrainian National News Agency UKRINFORM celebrates its 90th anniversary, National Radio Company of Ukraine (May 15, 2008)
- ^ On March 1 the national news agency Ukrinform launched Ukraine's first Internet radio service, Government of Ukraine (March 2, 2005)
- ^ "Official website. Contact Us. ("Kyiv" spelling)". Mar 2017.
- ^ "Official website". Archived from the original on 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
ukrinform-uatvwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ (in Ukrainian) Українському національному інформаційному агентству «Укрінформ» — 90 років. Вітаємо!, Телекритика (March 17, 2008)
- ^ "Ukrinform marks 100th anniversary of its foundation". ukrinform.net. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
- ^ a b "Information on Agency". www.ukrinform.net. Retrieved 2023-04-27.