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The Rada approved on 28 October the draft State Budget-2027 in the first reading. This helped Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi retain the lead in the number of media mentions among all cabinet members. This is shown by the Informator media prominence ranking data for the last seven days, 28 October – 3 November. Following him in number of media quotes are Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Infrastructure Minister Mykola Kalashnyk.
For the third week in a row Koretskyi has managed to remain the most quoted among government ministers. However, journalists’ attention to him is gradually waning. In the past seven days Koretskyi was mentioned in 273 publications. That is almost 100 publications fewer than in the comparable previous period.
"I thank the people's deputies for the joint work and support of the budget draft for 2027 year in the first reading. This is a budget that takes into account the realities of the full-scale war and the state's key needs for the coming year. First and foremost, it provides the necessary funding for security and defense, maintaining financial stability, and fulfilling important social obligations to people," said Prime Minister of Ukraine Serhii Koretskyi.
This quote was the most frequently cited by the media over the last seven days among everything the ministers were cited about. It was made on the occasion of the Verkhovna Rada approving the draft State Budget-2027 in the first reading; this took place on 28 October.
But the prime minister was notable during this period for more than just that quote. Other topics included the evacuation of Oleshky residents via a difficult route through Belarus, new rules for businesses during air raids, updated requirements for shelter arrangements, and non-military aid from the Netherlands of 1,2 billion euros.
"Then they (the Oleshky residents – ed.) go along a difficult route into the territory of Belarus and from Belarus cross into the customs territory of Ukraine. In Chernihiv and in the Kyiv region there will be repeat examinations and provision of primary medical care, supplying all necessary items at first—clothing, sanitary items, and everything (else). Then these people will be placed in various regions," said another of Serhii Koretskyi’s most widespread quotes.
Who sounded the loudest
The top three are the prime minister, the foreign minister, and the minister of reconstruction. Below is the full list of those who passed the threshold of 5 articles.
Serhii Koretskyi, Prime Minister of Ukraine - 32,0%
Andrii Sybiha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine - 20,9%
Mykola Kalashnyk, Minister of Reconstruction, Infrastructure and Transport of Ukraine - 7,5%
Yevhenii Khmara, Minister of Defense of Ukraine - 7,2%
Ivan Vyhivskyi, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine - 7,0%
Denys Shmyhal, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister of Energy of Ukraine - 6,1%
Taras Vysotskyi, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine - 3,4%
Tetiana Berezhna, Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy of Ukraine - Minister of Culture of Ukraine - 2,5%
Serhii Marchenko, Minister of Finance of Ukraine - 2,1%
Vitalii Bezhin, Minister for Communities, Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine - 2,0%
Andrii Butenko, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine - 2,0%
Vsevolod Chentsov, Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine - 1,6%
Oleksandr Kravchenko, Minister of Economy and Environment of Ukraine - 1,6%
Vitalii Kim, Minister for Veterans Affairs of Ukraine - 1,1%
Denys Uliutin, Minister of Social Policy, Family and Unity of Ukraine - 0,9%
Matvii Bidnyi, Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine - 0,9%
Oksana Ferchuk, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine - 0,6%
Koretskyi held first place, although his figure fell from 373 to 273 articles per week - the largest drop among all ranking participants. Sybiha, on the contrary, added and reduced the gap: 178 articles versus 168 a week earlier.
The most notable increase was by Ivan Vyhivskyi: from 18 to 60 articles. Kalashnyk also increased significantly—from 42 to 64 articles.
"If hostilities can be stopped in one place, they can be stopped everywhere and forever. Ukraine is ready. We expect the same from Russia," said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha.
"Over the past month the RF has systematically attacked Ukraine's bridge infrastructure, trying to disrupt transport connections and logistics. Massive strikes have been recorded in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kharkiv. There is no time to warm up, so we must make operational decisions," said Minister of Reconstruction, Infrastructure and Transport of Ukraine Mykola Kalashnyk.
What the government was focused on
Koretskyi's peak came on 28 October – 71 publications in one day. That day the discussion concerned the appeal not to use the word "demobilization," an announcement of changes in mobilization and reservation rules, and Zelenskyi's directive to form a team to strengthen Kyiv’s resilience.
Sybiha’s spike occurred on 29 October – 35 publications. The minister explained why Kyiv will not follow the path of "Finnicization," commented on RF strikes on civilians, and made statements about a possible meeting between Zelenskyi and Putin.
Kalashnyk was heard most loudly on 30 October – 34 publications: the topics were building 21 alternative bridge crossings, work to restore ferry connections in Kyiv, and the need for an additional 60 billion hryvnias for resilience programs.
Khmara's peak also fell on 30 October – 22 publications. What exactly caused the spike, from headlines where the surname is in the lede rather than the headline, is not entirely clear—it concerned grant competitions for developing missiles and radars.
"Our requirements are clear: effectiveness, affordable cost, interoperability between systems, and sufficient supply volume. It is on these results that we must focus the joint work of the state, the military, and the Ukrainian defense-industrial complex," said Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara, LB.ua.
Vyhivskyi produced the largest spike on 3 November – 37 publications, explaining the reasons for the unrest in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka and the responsibilities of the parents of the teen involved in the incident.
"This is a kind of scheme to extract draft dodgers. That woman was traveling with that purpose," said Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ivan Vyhivskyi, FOCUS.
Shmyhal was most prominent on 3 November – 25 publications, commenting on the RF strike on a substation critically important for the operation of the Khmelnytskyi NPP.
"Russia used 289 drones, 17 ballistic and 59 cruise missiles. The main targets again were energy facilities—power plants, substations of transmission and distribution systems," said First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister of Energy of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal, LB.ua.
What the sectors were focused on
The most publications came from the "Government and Justice" sector—273 articles, or 32,0%, and entirely thanks to Koretskyi. In second place was foreign policy with 192 articles (22,5%), where the main contributions were Sybiha, supplemented by Chentsov.
Defense and security gathered 130 articles (15,2%) thanks to Khmara, Vyhivskyi and Kim. Economy and finance—118 articles (13,8%): these were shared among Shmyhal, Vysotskyi, Marchenko, Kravchenko and Ferchuk.
Reconstruction and communities produced 81 article (9,5%)—mostly due to Kalashnyk. Social and humanitarian topics were the least, 54 article (6,3%), distributed among Berezhna, Butenko, Uliutin and Bidnyi.
Who was almost unheard of
Viktor Liashko garnered only 4 articles, Denys Maslov—only 1. The threshold to enter the ranking is 5 articles, so a difference of one or two publications this week determined who stayed off the table. This does not mean inactivity—just that their work this week was not written about often enough.
What this ranking does not show
The number of mentions in the media is a measure of presence in the information space, not an assessment of a minister’s work. The head of the MFA or the prime minister are mentioned almost daily by the logic of their posts, while other cabinet members can work for weeks without any high-profile news. Namesakes were filtered out in counting—there are none in the final figures.
How we counted
The monitoring covered 30 Ukrainian outlets and 18598 articles for the period from 28 October to 3 November. We take the composition of the government from the Cabinet of Ministers' page and verify it daily. Each participant's share is counted from the total number of mentions among cabinet members, not from the entire article array. The threshold to enter the ranking is 5 articles for the period; everything below is in the "no place" list.
How we calculate the rankings—what outlets we include, what we consider a mention, and how we filter out namesakes—is in a separate explanation.
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