“The world's media have switched to other conflicts,” Andriy Kovalenko, journalist and fixer, executive director of the Academy of Ukrainian Press, on the decline in interest in Ukraine.
According to him, compared to the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the presence of foreign media in Ukraine has decreased by at least half. Many journalists who used to cover events in Ukraine on a regular basis are now working in other hot spots.
“If we take Portuguese public television, at the beginning of the invasion they had two film crews in Ukraine at the same time. Now one of their groups has been in Israel for two and a half months, and the second has been covering the election campaign in the United States for three months,” Kovalenko said in a comment to the NUJU channel SPILKA News.
According to him, only significant events at the front can restore the interest of the world media. The expert also notes that it has become easier and cheaper for many editorial offices to buy materials from large news agencies such as Reuters and the Associated Press than to send their own correspondents to Ukraine.
