Diana Panchenko

Diana Panchenko   ( TV host,  journalist)
Born	21 May 1988  Mykolaiv,  Ukrainian SSR
Victim of	•  YouTube/Censorship •  EU/Sanctions
Nationality	Ukrainian
Alma mater	•  Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute •  Taras Shevchenko National University
Occupation	Journalist
Ukrainian journalist. Condemned by a 2024 Reporters Without Borders hit piece.

Diana Vitalievna Panchenko is a Ukrainian journalist who worked as TV presenter. In 2020 she was awarded the "Journalist of the Year" by the Ukrainian program "Person of the Year-2020".

Activities

Being a journalist in Ukraine is a thankless job. Over my 15 years in the trade, I’ve been assaulted three times. Every day, I receive threats. [Volodymyr] Zelensky has imposed personal sanctions on me. I have a criminal trial launched against me and a life sentence is in the cards—all for a post on “Telegram” saying we need peace talks to save Ukraine. This is not a joke; it’s all in my case files.

When I hear them say Ukraine is fighting for its freedom in this war, it hurts. I know there’s no freedom there. My shows used to have the highest ratings of all Ukrainian news media. I won a Journalist of the Year award. When the war began, I was in Kiev. I’ve been to the demarcation line. I know what I’m talking about.

But let’s start from the beginning. During the Maidan events of 2014, I was a reporter. Every day, I went there. I saw the mob throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at the police. I saw people getting paid for provocations. You won’t hear this in the Western media.

After the success of the Maidan “uprising,” the government introduced strict censorship. The minority took over the majority. It was a death sentence to say that you were against Maidan and didn’t support the coup. Several high-profile journalist assassinations happened at that time in Ukraine, including the murder of Oles Buzina.

After Maidan, I worked at the News One channel. Our stance was honest and unbiased. We covered Zelensky and his team’s corruption. We provided a platform to the proponents of the Minsk Agreements and Ukraine’s neutral status. We advocated for peace.

For that, in February 2021, Zelensky closed our channel and two others for violation of the Ukrainian constitution. This happened a year before the war, another indication that back then, he already knew what was coming and tried to cancel all alternative information sources. I was immediately declared a public enemy, and the hunt started. There were several assaults against me.

Since the war began, the dictatorship in Ukraine has hardened. Now, all TV channels have been closed. There’s only one left, and it’s under Zelensky’s control. All popular journalists received visits from members of the SBU, Ukraine’s secret intelligence service. They threatened the safety of my loved ones.

Censorship

Reporters Without Borders, in a 2024 hit piece, "condemns her misleading use of news video formats to promote disinformation". Her Youtube channel was deleted in August 2025.

 

A Quote by Diana Panchenko

Page	Quote	Date
Volodymyr Zelensky	“I know Zelensky a little. I know his team. He’s addicted to glory and hates criticism, first and foremost. This isn’t necessarily bad for an actor, but absolutely unacceptable for a politician, let alone a president. Presently, Zelensky isn’t making any decisions. The U.S. State Department is making them for him, with Jake Sullivan as his supervisor. In Ukraine, power is executed by the head of the President’s Office Andrei Yermak. And my sources say he’s ready to dump Zelensky. Ukraine has always been fertile soil for corruption, and today, it’s in full bloom. A few weeks before the war, ex- Zelensky advisor Sergei Shefir was moving enormous sums of cash out of the country and transferring funds to offshore accounts. Ex-Minister of Defense Reznikov transferred $1 billion to offshore accounts. But that is just a drop in the ocean. Recently, I released a video on “X” about some embezzlement cases known to the media. The total amount in these cases reaches $60 billion. That’s why people aren’t eager to go to the frontlines. They don’t want to die only to make Zelensky and his team even richer. Does the White House know this? Certainly. They’re covering up for each other. For years, the West has been hooking Ukrainian elites. Corrupted officials are easier to control; it’s leverage. When the United States decides to dump Zelensky, you’ll see it immediately by the number of reports about his corruption in the global media.”	12 October 2024

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