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Last week (from 3 to 9 August) among Verkhovna Rada deputies the media quoted Yaroslav Zheleznyak most often (fraction "HOLOS"). Informator obtained these data from its own monitoring of leading Ukrainian media, which we continuously conducted from 3 to 9 August 2026. Below we will publish monitoring results weekly on Mondays.
Who made a splash
The top three for 3 - 9 August: Zheleznyak (50,6 points), Hetmantsev (35,6) and Honcharenko (31,2). Next is Stefanchuk with almost the same weight as Honcharenko.
Yaroslav Zheleznyak, "HOLOS" - 50,6 points
Danylo Hetmantsev, "Servant of the People" - 35,6 points
Oleksii Honcharenko, "European Solidarity" - 31,2 points
Ruslan Stefanchuk, "Servant of the People" - 31,0 points
Serhii Rakhmanin, "HOLOS" - 19,4 points
Petro Poroshenko, "European Solidarity" - 16,8 points
Maryana Bezuhla, non-affiliated - 15,2 points
Zhan Beleniuk, "Servant of the People" - 14,4 points
Nina Yuzhanina, "European Solidarity" - 8,9 points
Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk, "Servant of the People" - 8,4 points
Zheleznyak has the highest score with a relatively modest concentration 0,43 — meaning publications are spread across the week rather than clustered in one day. The peak was on 6 August.
As is known, on 6 August the enemy carried out devastating strikes on warehouses of large Ukrainian companies. Among others, ROZETKA, Epicenter and other businesses were affected. Zheleznyak said targeted measures by the state were insufficient. Business risks need to be insured.
But the media liked Zheleznyak's quote about something else most of all. Namely about the passions around Olga Stefanishyna's resignation as ambassador to the United States. And about who should replace her.
"After Svyrydenko refused, and Umerov was rejected by our own, they are still thinking whom to send there. Among other options, it could be a very unexpected candidate," Yaroslav Zheleznyak said on 6 August.
Honcharenko, with 24 publications, scored fewer points than Zheleznyak with 23 — the difference is in outlet weight and the number of headline mentions: Zheleznyak has 7 of them, Honcharenko only 1. Honcharenko was also best quoted regarding the strikes on 6 August and the threat to big business.
Who made noise when
The hottest day of the week was 6 August: that was when peaks for Zheleznyak, Honcharenko, Poroshenko, Beleniuk, Yuzhanina, Tkachenko, Razumkov, Tymoshenko, Cherniev and Vlasenko occurred.
Stefanchuk’s and Bezuhla’s peak fell on 4 August. On that day Stefanchuk signed an order that finally allowed media representatives to attend parliamentary committee and Temporary Investigative Commission (TIC) meetings in person.
Bezuhla on 4 August was most quoted over her attack on Zaluzhnyi. She called the former commander-in-chief "an internal vatnik" after his truly resonant statement that NATO is outdated and not ready to respond to the challenges of modern warfare. Media most widely quoted this Bezuhla remark.
The peak of quotes for Hetmantsev and Rakhmanin fell on 3 August. That day Rakhmanin’s large interview with Ukrainska Pravda was published, the gist of which was that with Mykhailo Fedorov’s resignation "not everything is so unambiguous." Leading media dissected that interview into quotes. Also on 3 August media actively quoted Hetmantsev’s statements criticizing the Ministry of Digital Transformation.
"When during meetings with us business cries crocodile tears and says: we don’t have real software for testing, because part of the supplied software is nonfunctional, and part simply does not exist in nature — I again have to raise the question that the Ministry of Digital Transformation once again is sabotaging the launch of eAccise," — Danylo Hetmantsev, UNIAN, 3 August.
Who was given the floor
Zheleznyak and Hetmantsev have the most direct quotes. Next are Honcharenko and Beleniuk — they were quoted slightly less actively.
But Stefanchuk, who ranks fourth by points, was not quoted even once during the week — he is only mentioned. The same applies within the top-10 list — for Poroshenko and Vasylevska-Smahliuk.
By factions, the lead of the "Non-affiliated" is huge — 213,0 total points across 42 deputies in the rating, while "HOLOS" scored 73,0 points with only four deputies: Zheleznyak and Rakhmanin essentially carry the entire faction.
"European Solidarity" — 28,2 points among three,
"Batkivshchyna" — 16,3 among five,
"Servant of the People" — 16,0 among seven.
One-day stars
A concentration of 1,0 means all publications about the deputy were released on one day — i.e., this is not a constant presence in the news but a single information spike. For Maksym Tkachenko and Dmytro Razumkov this is the picture: 5 and 4 publications respectively, all on 6 August.
Maksym Tkachenko, "Servant of the People" - 5,0 points, 100% of mentions on 6 August.
Dmytro Razumkov, non-affiliated - 3,8 points, 100% of mentions on 6 August.
Nina Yuzhanina, "European Solidarity" - 8,9 points, 75% of mentions on 6 August
Olena Shuliak, "Servant of the People" - 3,3 points, 75% of mentions on 6 August
Yehor Cherniev, "Servant of the People" - 7,0 points, 71% of mentions on 6 August
Petro Poroshenko, "European Solidarity" - 16,8 points, 65% of mentions on 6 August
What they said
Below are quotes of deputies that media published most often. Oleksii Honcharenko, "Informator", 5 August — about enemy strikes on warehouses of large companies, which could lead to bankruptcies of big business:
"The largest Rozetka warehouse is beyond repair. An attack on civilian facilities. Simply despicable."
Yurii Kamelchuk, "Novyny.LIVE", 3 August — about enemy strikes on Ukrainian Railways:
"I think that in the future we will see what we previously saw only in futuristic films — armored trains, armored carriages and other protected transport."
Yana Zinkevych, TSN, 4 August — about the funeral of Yeva Royter, a Hospitallers volunteer who died during the strike on 1 August. This news caused a large resonance in the media:
"Yeva was an extraordinarily proactive, decisive and brave girl. Lately she was on duty with rescuers in Kyiv, running under fire to help others and accepted death as a heroine. We still cannot believe it. This is indescribable pain. We will not forgive the Russians for any death."
The silent majority
Of 390 deputies monitored that week only 66 were included. Another 324 deputies had no mentions — the vast majority of the Verkhovna Rada. In Informator’s view, this is telling, because after the formation of the single majority and given martial law, the Ukrainian parliament has lost some of its influence.
Deputies can now be divided into two categories: those who press the button during voting and those who are against, but nothing depends on them. Both categories often have nothing to say. Some deputies find it hard to explain why they supported a particular bill. Examples of the silent ones:
Serhii Yevtushok,
Volodymyr Ivanov,
Roman Ivanisov,
Mariia Ionova,
Yulii Ioffe.
How we counted
In monitoring of 30 leading media, real mentions of deputies were found in 18 of them — from "NV" (34 publications) and "Novyny.LIVE" (24) to "Militarne" and "X-Sport" (one each). We checked 33 238 articles for the period from 3 to 9 August 2026.
Previous experiments forced us to exclude a bunch of mid-tier media from monitoring due to a large number of manipulative texts.
A point is awarded for a deputy’s appearance in a publication taking into account where they are mentioned — in the headline, lead or text — and whether they are directly quoted;
a direct quote weighs more than a simple mention;
the outlet’s weight in the calculation varies.
The top-20 and the "concentration" indicator (the share of publications in one day) were calculated from those same 66 deputies who received at least one mention during the week. Informator will describe the counting method in more detail in a separate article.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Железняк випередив усіх: 50,6 бала і згадки у восьми виданнях за тиждень". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Informator.
