Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears in roughly 42 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are down 44.9% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -3.16 — negative.

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war with Russia's annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas, and has continued to serve during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February 2022.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Also covered as: Zelensky, Zelenskyy · Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
42
mentioning this entity
Week over week
-44.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-3.16
negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentions per day: 91 days, latest 42.00 on 2026-08-200.0012502500May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Volodymyr Zelenskyy coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -3.16 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Volodymyr Zelenskyy: 89 days, latest 4510.00 on 2026-08-180.001000020000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).