4 channels · 3 channels on air now
To understand the present state of journalism in Ukraine you have to start with 24 February 2022. After Russia's full-scale invasion the country's major television channels moved, under martial law, into a joint broadcast marathon called Yedyni Novyny — United News — with different channels taking turns through the day to produce a single shared output. The purpose was to maintain one verified flow of information under war conditions. The arrangement has also drawn criticism from journalists' organisations and international bodies for narrowing plurality inside the country, and readers should weigh Ukrainian television journalism in that context.
The second defining development is the creation of public service broadcasting. The state television inherited from the Soviet period was restructured in 2017 into the public broadcaster Suspilne; it is a member of the European Broadcasting Union and its governance was designed to be independent of government. That was one of the concrete steps in the country's alignment with European institutions.
The third is the constraint war places on reporting: on grounds of military information security, access to the front line and the publication of unit positions and strike results are regulated. Ukrainian journalists work inside those constraints, and it shapes output directly.
Some of the channels below broadcast in Ukrainian and some in Russian; the country's bilingual structure has shifted since the invasion but persists.
Ukraine · Ukrainian
24 Kanal is one of Ukraine's rolling news channels and originates in Lviv. Its western Ukrainian roots are reflected in its agenda: it has particular proximity to the country's western regions, the Polish border and refugee movements.
Since the invasion the channel has weighted its output towards digital distribution and now draws a substantial part of its audience through platforms.
Ukraine · Ukrainian · ● live
Espreso TV was founded in 2013, in the days the Euromaidan protests began in Ukraine, and became known for streaming those protests live and uninterrupted from Kyiv's Independence Square. Its founding story is an early demonstration of the power of digital live video to carry a political event directly.
The channel today produces bulletins, political discussion programming and field reporting. Its editorial line is independent, and it builds its agenda around the war, domestic politics and international support.
Ukraine · Ukrainian · ● live
Suspilne is Ukraine's public broadcaster. It was created in 2017 by restructuring the state television inherited from the Soviet period; its governance was designed to be independent of government and the organisation joined the European Broadcasting Union. The transformation is one of Eastern Europe's examples of the move from state to public service broadcasting.
The corporation maintains regional production centres across the country, which under war conditions means the capacity to report directly from different regions. Suspilne Novyny is its news service.
For a reader who wants the Ukrainian agenda from a public source, without passing through a government or private-capital channel, it is a primary destination.
Ukraine · Ukrainian · ● live
UNIAN was founded in 1993 and is one of Ukraine's longest-established news agencies. It produces the raw news flow used by newspapers and broadcasters in the country, so a Ukrainian story often has UNIAN at its source.
The agency's own channel carries that flow directly to viewers. By the nature of agency journalism its copy is stripped of interpretation and weighted towards fact, which suits a reader who wants the raw version of a development.
Streams are shown from each broadcaster's own official YouTube channel through the YouTube player; the content and all rights belong to those broadcasters. Montegre does not broadcast or retransmit. Live news coverage may contain distressing footage.
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