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Ukrainian media quoted Servant of the People faction MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak most frequently in the week from 14 to 20 September among all MPs of the Verkhovna Rada. Zheleznyak scored 158 points — the highest figure in the Informator ranking of Rada deputies most quoted by the media. Last week Informator’s ranking was led by Davyd Arakhamia with 120,1 points. He has now moved to second place. Third is Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk.
Zheleznyak took first place not by one sharp spike but by steady presence: his mentions are spread across 21 outlets, and on the peak day 16 September only a third of publications appeared. He managed to comment both on the suspicion against the NABU director and on changes to judges’ pay. Here is one of the quotes that interested journalists most:
"It is not enough to sign a suspicion; it still has to be delivered. Right now it’s a whole circus — they announced the suspicion before it was delivered," Zheleznyak said on 14 September about the suspicion against NABU Director Semen Kryvonos.
Who made noise
Top-3 of the week: Yaroslav Zheleznyak (158,0), Davyd Arakhamia (120,1), Ruslan Stefanchuk (116,5).
Yaroslav Zheleznyak, "Holos" faction, 158,0 points
Davyd Arakhamia, "Servant of the People" faction, 120,1 points
Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chair of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 116,5 points
Roksolana Pidlas, "Servant of the People" faction, 102,4 points
Danylo Hetmantsev, "Servant of the People" faction, 79,0 points
Oleksiy Honcharenko, "European Solidarity" faction, 41,7 points
Vadym Stolar, "Restoration of Ukraine" faction, 32,4 points
Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk, "Servant of the People" faction, 31,2 points
Yulia Tymoshenko, "Batkivshchyna" faction, 24,8 points
Roman Kostenko, "Holos" faction, 23,8 points
The silent majority
Of 394 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, only 106 were mentioned during the week. The rest — 274 MPs, nearly seven out of ten — did not appear in any of the 18817 checked publications.
Who trended when
On 16 September the government approved the draft state budget for 2027 year — that day the news feed was dominated by reports about almost 4,9 trillion UAH for defense and an offensive operation by the Third Army Corps in Donetsk. Against that backdrop, a peak in mentions that day was recorded for two deputies: Zheleznyak and Pidlas, whose comments on the budget were included in pieces about state spending.
14 September was another hot day of the week, and that day saw peaks for Arakhamia, Stefanchuk, Hetmantsev, Honcharenko and Vlasenko. The news feed that day was dominated by the topic of the suspicion against the NABU director and the resignation of Prosecutor General Kravchenko.
"The vote on Prosecutor General Kravchenko’s resignation will take place tomorrow, 15 September," — Arakhamia, Komersant
Who was given the floor
By the number of direct quotes Zheleznyak is again ahead — 11 for the week. This sharply contrasts with Arakhamia, whose score is almost equal to first place, but he gave only 1 quote — journalists mostly paraphrased his actions or plans rather than his words. A similar story for Stefanchuk: 116,5 points and only 1 quote in 18 headline mentions.
Among factions, "Servant of the People" leads with a total index of 545,4 points and 59 deputies in the ranking — but the lion’s share of this result comes from a few names: Arakhamia, Pidlas, Hetmantsev. "Holos" is second with 214,5 points, and here the contribution is almost entirely provided by a single Zheleznyak.
"On our shoulders today is not only the quality of legislation, but largely the financial viability of the country. Therefore we have no time for parliamentary blocking," — Stefanchuk, LB.ua
One-day stars
All eight of Halyna Mykhailiuk’s publications for the week were released on one day — 14 September. The same happened with Solomiia Bobrovska: all five of her mentions fell on 17 September.
Indicative is also Arakhamia’s case: despite second place in the overall ranking, three quarters of his publications were published on 14 September — the day he announced the vote on the prosecutor general’s resignation. A similar picture for Honcharenko (80% of mentions on 14 September) and Vlasenko (also 80%, the same day).
What they said
"Look. Well, obviously, I repeat, obviously, we are dealing with a flight. He just sat down and needed to write himself a business trip...", — Honcharenko on Prosecutor General Kravchenko’s foreign business trip.
"Friends, I am in the position of Prosecutor General — that is the worst nightmare of all corrupt officials... But if someone from the Office of the President persistently pushes their own candidate, I promise to think about it," — Hetmantsev on rumors about his appointment as the new prosecutor general.
"Within the court‑set term we faced unlawful actions by banking institutions, consisting of absolutely groundless refusals to transfer my own funds...", — Stolar — about having funds but being unable to transfer them as bail in NABU and SAP criminal proceedings known as "Forrest Gump" and "Themis."
How we counted
The monitoring covers 30 leading Ukrainian media; from 14 to 20 September 18817 publications were checked. A deputy’s score consists of several factors: a mention in a headline weighs more than in the text, a direct quote weighs more than a mere surname in a list, and the weight of the outlet itself is taken into account in the calculation. We deliberately do not publish the number of publications and outlets in the ranking — the score itself reflects the full picture of prominence.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Железняк набрав 158 балів і обійшов Арахамію на тлі скандалу з підозрою Кравченку". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Informator.
