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The state agency was established as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press (BUP) in 1918, yet since then it went through a series of reorganizations. During the Soviet period, it was associated with Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS).
1918 – Bureau of Ukrainian Press
1920 – All-Ukrainian bureau of the Russian Telegraph Agency (UkROSTA)
1921 – Radio-Telegraph Agency of Ukraine (RATAU)
1990 – Ukrainian National Informational Agency (UKRINFORM)
1996 – State Informational Agency of Ukraine (DINAU)
2000 – Ukrainian National Informational Agency (UKRINFORM)
2015 – Ukrinform became a part of the Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine (UA|TV)
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2018 – Ukrinform signed a co-operation agreement with the Athens–Macedonian News Agency (ANA) providing for an exchange of news items in all categories.
2025-02-25 - Tetiana Kulyk, editor-in-chief of the multimedia department and the host of patriotic Nation of Invincibles project, was killed in a night-time drone attack by Russia on her home
From Wikipedia’s article on Ukrinform, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4