Between February 2022 and February 2024, over 14.1 million articles published on the internet in 65 languages contained the word "Ukraine" and around 12.9 million mentioned "Russia." Online media coverage of the two countries increased in 2022 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in February of that year. Prior to the war, the number of online articles mentioning Russia was higher than those mentioning Ukraine. The country with the most articles on Ukraine published on the internet in 2022 was the United States, and in 2023 it was Ukraine.
Number of online news articles mentioning Russia and Ukraine worldwide from January 2017 to February 2024
(in 1,000s)
The mentions refer to the GDELT database which translates articles in 65 languages into English. The figures represent the total number of all articles GDELT monitored during that time interval which include the search term at least once.
Figures have been rounded.
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