News in Society: recent reporting, explainers and the full article archive from Media Visnyk.
Ukraine enters October 2026 with no election date in sight, but with plenty of rumors about candidates, ratings, and backroom deals. The government is once again using the war as a universal shield against political competition. This column is not a call for immediate elections — it asks who the Office of the President fears more: Putin or its own people.
A Rating Group poll puts Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s trust at 64% against Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s roughly 55%, while 53% of Ukrainians back a single-term limit for the presidency. As Donald Trump demands immediate elections that Ukraine’s constitution bans under martial law, the column asks whether external pressure will rally the nation around the incumbent — or sharpen the internal demand for change.
Zelenskyy says Kyiv’s authorities almost completely failed the Resilience Plan; Klitschko points to unpaid state funding — UAH 2 billion allocated out of 15 billion requested. What this conflict means for Kyiv residents before winter.
Iryna Vereshchuk did what few officials in the Office of the President manage: she said out loud what everyone feels but is afraid to voice. There will be no peace anytime soon. Seemingly honest. But the public reaction was not what the office expected. The top comment on her post: “War is a profitable business for greedy officials.” This isn’t just anger. It’s a diagnosis.
EU-wide polling shows sustained public support for aid to Ukraine, while IOM data reveal severe financial strain among internally displaced households. The article separates headline funding totals from housing programmes and documents the gap between official capacity figures and living conditions in Kharkiv.
Kyiv confirms preparations for the possible temporary relocation of vulnerable residents during prolonged utility disruptions. A Media Visnyk source alleges numerical targets and pressure on staff, but those internal claims remain unverified.
Brent briefly climbed above $108 after Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline outage. Ukrainian A-95 rose UAH 2.79 and diesel UAH 3.42 per litre in a week; wholesale diesel already exceeds average retail, pointing to further pump-price risk.
Families of Ukrainian POWs and missing soldiers rallied in Kremenchuk, Cherkasy and Mykolaiv on September 6. Ukraine has hotlines, registers and a family portal, yet the key question — where a relative is and whether they are alive — can stay unanswered for months or years.
Ukraine’s government has approved draft legislation aimed at expanding immigration and residence protections for foreign defenders. We examine the combat-service threshold, veteran status, post-service documents and a legal inconsistency over the six-month residence period.
