Ukrinform
Native name | Українське національне інформаційне агентство |
|---|---|
| Company type | State enterprise |
| Industry | News agency |
| Founded | March 16, 1918 |
| Headquarters | 8/16, Bohdan Khmelnytskoho, Kyiv, Ukraine, 01001 |
Key people | Oleksandr Kharchenko |
| Owner | Ministry of Culture and Information Policy |
| Website | ukrinform.net 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 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.
Ukrinform is Ukraine's representative of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) and the Black Sea Association of National News Agencies (BSANNA).
Ukrinform delivers news stories in Ukrainian, Russian, English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Polish.