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From 21 to 27 September 2026, the most prominent member of the Ukrainian parliament in the media was Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk - 48 publications across 16 outlets. That is almost twice as many as the second-ranked Oleksii Honcharenko. A week ago the ranking was led by Yaroslav Zhelezniak with 115 publications; now he is only fifth.
"Right now, under conditions in which elections would meet the main criteria—democratic standards, security, and trust—it is very difficult to hold them. So I think that for the near future this is unlikely," Ruslan Stefanchuk said on 21 September.
This was the speaker's comment on the possibility of holding elections through the Diia app. The Council head assessed that idea as unlikely in the near term.
But this is not the only quote from Stefanchuk that media outlets eagerly published. The speaker also commented on limits to salaries of officials paid from the budget, announced a Ukrainization of legislation removing Russisms and Anglicisms, and spoke about saving budget funds on payments to officials ahead of the adoption of the budget-2027.
"I want to prepare amendments that, on the one hand, will provide additional revenue to the budget, and on the other hand will allow redistribution within the country toward more equitable prices," Ruslan Stefanchuk also said on 21 September.
Who made the loudest impact
The top three leaders were headed by Stefanchuk with 119,3 points, followed by Oleksii Honcharenko (59,3 points) and Oleksandr Korniienko (44,0 points).
Ruslan Stefanchuk, Chair of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - 119,3 points
Oleksii Honcharenko, European Solidarity - 59,3 points
Oleksandr Korniienko, First Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - 44,0 points
Petro Poroshenko, European Solidarity - 38,1 points
Yaroslav Zhelezniak, Holos - 35,8 points
Oleksandr Fediienko, Servant of the People - 27,5 points
Danylo Hetmantsev, Servant of the People - 24,2 points
David Arakhamia, Servant of the People - 22,9 points
Vadym Stolar, Restoration of Ukraine - 19,0 points
Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk, Servant of the People - 17,6 points
Honcharenko made the news not with a political statement but with a personal story—a wiretap found in his own car. Poroshenko, meanwhile, stuck to the budget topic, demanding additional funding for the military.
"Our demands are concrete: at least 500 billion hryvnias of additional resources for the military, for the purchase of weapons and defense technologies; 30 percent of military personal income tax funds—directly to the brigades," - Petro Poroshenko, Obozrevatel
The silent majority
Of 394 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, only 91 were mentioned during the week — meaning 288 deputies were not captured in the monitoring at all. That is almost three-quarters of the entire parliamentary corps.
Who made noise when
On 21 September, Zelensky agreed to meet with Trump, and that same day a woman died as a result of a strike on Sumy — the 1671-th day of the war. Against this backdrop, deputies' statements about elections and the security situation resonated most loudly: Korniienko explained why international partners are not demanding urgent elections and why there is no blanket ban on pro-Russian politicians running, and Shuliak commented on the cancellation of the Hour of Questions to the government.
It was precisely 21 September that became a peak day for six deputies from the top 10 — Stefanchuk, Honcharenko, Korniienko, Stolar, Vasylevska-Smahliuk, and Shuliak.
"I think that over time we in Kyiv, on the one hand, will learn to live with all this, start using underground halls and capacities more often, and also begin to better intercept primarily the rocket 'Shaheds'," - Oleksandr Korniienko, LB.ua
Who was given the floor
By number of direct quotes, Stefanchuk leads (seven) and Honcharenko has the same number, although their overall scores differ by almost half. Korniienko also accumulated five quotes. By contrast, for example, Hetmantsev and Arakhamia, despite dozens of publications, received only one direct quote between them—mostly articles wrote about them rather than quoted them.
Among factions, the loudest was Servant of the People—totaling 268,9 points thanks to 41 deputies in the ranking, while European Solidarity scored 109,2 points from only eight deputies. Holos remains at 54,6 points mostly thanks to Zhelezniak alone.
"The bill provides in the first-read version that if you are driving and a noise level recorded by the police exceeds the limit established in your settlement, then the first fine is 17 thousand hryvnias...", - Yaroslav Zhelezniak, NV
One-day stars
For Halyna Tretiakova, almost all of her week's publications—all four—were released on a single day, 22 September. A similar pattern applies to Roman Ivanisov: three quarters of mentions also fell on 22 September. Serhii Babak and Serhii Nahorniak received two-thirds of their mentions each on one day—23 and 25 September respectively. For Olena Shuliak, who made the top 10, more than half of her publications were released on 21 September—the same day when most of the ranking leaders made headlines.
What they said
"I found a wiretap in my car. I'm showing what it all looks like. I've already called the police and I will definitely deal with it," - Oleksii Honcharenko, TSN
"Guys, this will end badly. I'm ashamed," - David Arakhamia, Ukrainska Pravda
"I observe attempts to spread information about possible problems with Internet access. I want to explain to citizens that despite the enemy's decision to strike data centers, the situation is being stabilized quite quickly," - Oleksandr Fediienko, TSN
How we counted
The monitoring covers 30 leading Ukrainian outlets; during the week from 21 to 27 September 2026 we checked 18 575 articles. Points are awarded for mentions in the headline, lede, and body of a publication, with a direct quote from a deputy weighted more heavily than a simple surname mention. The weighting also takes into account the outlet's authority—a publication in a national media gives more points than in a niche one. The final index is the sum of these weighted indicators for the week. How we calculate the rankings—what outlets we include, what we count as a mention, and how we filter out namesakes—is explained in a separate note.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Стефанчук на піку популярності через заяву про вибори у Дії - рейтинг медіагучності депутатів ВР". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Informator.
