Tetiana Danylenko - attack 13.01.2025

On January 3, 2025, journalist and host of UP Tyzhden Tetiana Danylenko wrote a Facebook post reflecting on the division of society into classes, in which she criticized President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The post triggered comments containing hate speech, sexism, and misogyny, including discussions about the journalist’s personal life and her past relationships.

●     “Would it even be a day if Tania didn’t chime in with her ‘meh’?”

●     “Ms. Tetiana Danylenko’s comment is in the spirit of: ‘Hit a man, take the woman’s side, and you can’t go wrong’…”

●     Unconvincing, primitive manipulation designed for the applause of Roshen idiots! Journalism has turned into political prostitution for primitive people… The fact that journalists are now interviewing each other instead of experts speaks of a deep crisis in journalism as such! And no idiot on the other side of the screen asks themselves what wise things a philologist can say about macroeconomics, microeconomics, geopolitics, the military-industrial complex, and other highly specialized fields without relevant education?! Just empty babble! Trash ‘experts’ for trash audiences…!”

Commentators also recalled the “I’m not your dear girl” campaign, alleging that Tetiana Danylenko was involved in it: “Is this the same ‘I’m not your dear girl’ Danylenko, or am I wrong? Took her T-shirt off and started scribbling…?”

As a reminder, in 2018, female media representatives accused Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko of sexism after he referred to Detector Media journalist Maryna Baranivska as “my dear girl.” After that, Iryna Zemlyana, a media expert at the Institute of Mass Information, and Liza Kuzmenko, a Hromadske Radio journalist and now head of the NGO Women in Media, wore T-shirts bearing the slogan “I’m not your dear girl” on the eve of International Women’s Day. Tetiana Danylenko was mistakenly linked to this campaign.