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From 7 to 13 September 2026, the most prominent MP according to Informator’s media monitoring was Davyd Arakhamia - 115,3 points. That’s almost twice as much as the second place. A week ago the ranking was led by Oleksiy Honcharenko with 92,4 points - this time he fell to seventh place.
"My personal strategy as a negotiator is to identify all the people who are in Putin’s circle and talk to each one of them. After all, in any war there are people who support peace."
It was this phrase by Servant of the People faction head Davyd Arakhamia that got him the most media mentions in the week from 7 to 13 September. He overtook last week’s leaders and MPs like Stolar and Hetmantsev, whom journalists have been mentioning most frequently for months. Informator analyzed the media activity of Verkhovna Rada members; our methodology is described at the end of the text.
Who made the biggest noise
The top three: Davyd Arakhamia - 115,3 points, Vadym Stolar - 78,4 points, Oleksandr Yurchenko - 60,0 points.
Davyd Arakhamia, Servant of the People - 115,3 points
Vadym Stolar, Restoration of Ukraine - 78,4 points
Oleksandr Yurchenko, Restoration of Ukraine - 60,0 points
Anton Yatsenko, For the Future - 43,5 points
Danylo Hetmantsev, Servant of the People - 43,2 points
Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chair of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - 42,7 points
Oleksiy Honcharenko, European Solidarity - 29,6 points
Roman Kostenko, Holos - 27,5 points
Petro Poroshenko, European Solidarity - 19,6 points
Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk, Servant of the People - 19,0 points
Arakhamia’s mention peak fell on 7 September — that’s when the main wave of pieces about his negotiation strategy toward Russia was published. The topic proved dominant: 24 out of 60 publications about him were front-page headlines.
"So my personal strategy as a negotiator is to identify all the people who are in Putin’s circle and talk to each one of them. After all, in any war there are people who support peace and people who support war," - Davyd Arakhamia, Novyny.LIVE
The silent majority
Of 392 people's deputies, 288 were not mentioned at all during the week — that’s more than 73% of the entire Rada. With mentions — only 84 deputies.
Who made noise when
The hottest day was 9 September — that day saw the most events related to MPs that week. The country was then living through news about the Houthi strike on Saudi Arabia, Ukraine’s winter preparations after Zelensky’s talks with the Norwegian prime minister, and the resignation of Prosecutor General Kravchenko.
Against that background, on 9 September a piece came out about the family of an MP who voted to limit NABU and SAP and bought an estate in Zakarpattia, as well as articles featuring ranking participants — Anton Yatsenko, Anna Skorokhod and Andriy Osadchuk. The peaks for Arakhamia and Hetmantsev fell on 7 September; Stefanchuk, Stolar, Yurchenko and Poroshenko peaked on 11 September.
"But somehow this bill sat without any movement for two years, although, of course, the prosecutor’s office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the SBU, the State Bureau of Investigations and, of course, the Office of the President all knew about its existence," - Andriy Osadchuk, NV
Who was given the floor
Ruslan Stefanchuk received the most direct quotes — four — even though he ranks only sixth by total points. Stolar and Yatsenko each had three quotes. Meanwhile Yurchenko, Poroshenko and Vasylevska-Smahliuk, who made the top 10 by points, had no direct quotes: they were written about, but not given the floor.
By total faction points, Servant of the People leads sharply — 363,8 points and 45 deputies in the ranking. Next is Restoration of Ukraine with 140,0 points, but only thanks to three deputies — Stolar, Yurchenko and one other faction member. Holos scored 73,4 points thanks to seven deputies, European Solidarity — 68,7 points across nine.
"The book presented today is more than a chronicle of events. It is testimony to the Ukrainian struggle, professionalism and what we are capable of when we act decisively, accurately and together," - Ruslan Stefanchuk, Glavcom
One-day stars
All six of Liudmyla Marchenko’s publications for the week came out on one day — 11 September. For Oleksandr Yurchenko, almost everything written about him also appeared that same 11 September — that was when the Verkhovna Rada was actively discussing Vadym Stolar’s case, and with it Yurchenko’s name. Stolar was part of that same wave: most of his publications also fell on 11 September, when the court set his bail at 300 million hryvnias. Mykyta Poturaiev and Yulia Tymoshenko received almost all their mentions on 10 September, and Volodymyr Areschonkov on 9 September.
"I am in Ukraine. Today I personally and voluntarily appeared at the court’s summons to take part in the hearing on applying a preventive measure to me. I believe this fact best demonstrates my attitude toward this proceeding: I do not intend to hide, evade investigation or in any way obstruct the criminal proceeding," - Vadym Stolar, UNIAN
What they said
"If I run, I will get 70–80%, that’s obvious. People would vote for me, but I’m working in Kyiv right now. If my name were added to the list, everyone would vote immediately," - Anton Yatsenko, Glavcom
"I associate the inability to resolve problematic issues involving the cessation of obvious crimes with a lack of competence. Unfortunately, instead of improving and developing those competencies, the renewed BEB went down the path of creating a parallel reality," - Danylo Hetmantsev, Gordon
"When two special services are operating, you can call it whatever you want — you can even call it a kidnapping. And the question here is that, looking at how things happened now, many things really cannot be said on air," - Roman Kostenko, NV
How we counted
The monitoring covers 30 leading Ukrainian outlets — from NV and Glavcom to Suspilne and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. For the week from 7 to 13 September, 18 435 articles were checked. An MP’s score consists of the number of publications, the outlet’s weight, the location of the mention in the text (headline or body mention carry different weights) and whether the piece contains a direct quote from them — a quote increases the score more than a mere mention of the surname. This is a ranking of media presence, not an assessment of an MP’s performance.
Informator previously described in detail the methodology by which we compile our ranking. It appears weekly.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Тиждень перемовин про мир підняв Арахамію на перше місце в рейтингу депутатів Ради, яких медіа цитували найбільше". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Informator.
