On March 16, 1918, the National Information Agency of Ukraine Ukrinform was founded, which was originally named the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency and began operations during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921.

A special circular telegram from the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Ukraine stated: “The Ukrainian Telegraph Agency – UkTA has begun functioning. Its main branch is temporarily located in the city of Katerynoslav, in the building of the former provincial administration, room 2-a.

After the formation of the Ukrainian state, headed by Hetman Skoropadsky, the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency (UTA) began its work in Kiev. From May to November 1918, it was headed by Dmytro Dontsov, who also headed the Press Bureau. UTA published its reports in the "Bulletins of the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency" and "Telegrams of the Ukrainian Telegraph Agency".

Since then, the agency has changed its title several times. UTA, BUP, UKRROSTA, RATAU… This is far from a complete list.

Among the founders of the media business in Ukraine who worked at Ukrinform were many high-profile public and cultural figures, including Rudolf Halperin, Pavlo Tychyna, Yuriy Olesha, Ivan Le, Serhiy Pylypenko, Volodymyr Narbut, and many other writers and politicians.

Stalin's repression did not spare the agency as the first leaders of RATAU, Volodymyr Narbut and Ivan Lakyza, along with dozens of other employees, died in the GULAG camps.

The agency operated under the name RATAU for almost 70 years. After the declaration of Ukrainian independence, the news agency took on its current name, Ukrinform, after it had acquired national status.

Today Ukrinform is the leading news agency in Ukraine, cooperating with many foreign news organizations and being a member of the European Alliance of News Agencies EANA, of which the KosovaPress news agency is also a part.

For more than a decade, the Ukrinform crew has not only covered the Russian-Ukrainian war, reporting from the front lines and frontline regions, but also directly defended our land with weapons. Currently, 19 Ukrinform employees, both male and female, are serving in the military.

Almost 10 years ago, on the night of September 4, 2014, at the beginning of the Anti-Terrorist Operation, Ukrinform journalist Oleh Zadoianchuk was killed by a Russian attack near Luhansk. He became the first journalist to be killed in the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Oleh rejected the agency's offer to get a military deferment, saying: "This is fate" after he went to war despite his poor eyesight, wearing thick glasses...

Ukrinform this year lost another colleague in the ongoing war: on the night of February 26, a Russian drone struck a house in Kryukivshchyna, Kyiv region, killing journalist Tetiana Kulyk, who was the author and host of the project "Invincible Nation" and served as acting head of the Multimedia Department. Her husband was also killed in the drone strike.

Despite the war, the agency currently maintains the largest network of regional and foreign correspondents on staff. Ukrinform journalists report from almost all regions of Ukraine and 10 countries: the USA, Canada, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Poland, Turkey and China, reports KosovaPress.

The Ukrinform website offers over 300 news stories a day, as well as exclusive commentaries and interviews, photo reports and infographics, giving readers a complete and objective view of the latest developments.

News and publications are published in Ukrainian, English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Polish. Ukrinform has also launched several multimedia projects "Our Commanders of Victory", "Kramatorsk Station", "Nation of the Invincible", "Behind the Back", featuring the Ukrainian military, volunteers and other public figures.

In addition, the agency produces professional information products: thematic news sources, information packages, newsletters and summaries. Among Ukrinform's subscribers and partners are electronic and print media, Ukrainian television and radio companies, foreign media outlets, government bodies and businesses, embassies and consulates, enterprises and banks.

Ukrinform runs a professional photo service and owns the largest historical photo archive in Ukraine, which includes over 500 thousand images. Its regional and foreign photo correspondents replenish the database with dozens of new photo reports every day.