Channel 24 host Daryna Trunova faced online attacks on 22 October following her Facebook posts about the death of a man who was taken for a medical examination by enlistment center representatives. According to her, he suffered a traumatic brain injury and died in the hospital shortly after.
The journalist covered the incident in her posts, writes Women in Media, which triggered a wave of harrasment against her.
A news story by Daryna Trunova about the situation, titled “Death in an enlistmen center! New details of the tragedy. Listen to what the enlistment center says. Immediate response” was posted on Channel 24 YouTube on 24 October 2025. Trunova also shared the video on her Facebook page.
User Oleksiy Osker wrote his own post about Trunova, calling her “a rep-whore-ter and a TV host from Channel 24, or the slutathon, milking a man’s murder by the enlistment officers for clout.”
Daryna Trunova clarified to Women in Media that Channel 24 was not featured in the United News telethon. “But people don’t care about that,” the host said.
Along with posts and comments under her posts, users also began to text her in private. The screenshots provided by the journalist show messages calling her a “mic stand,” “infusoria,” and a “telethon propagandist.”
“Last week, before the death of my friends’ son, I recorded a comment from a Kyiv oblast enlistment center representative. We tried to debunk the myths surrounding enlistment centers, and I was asking him provocative questions so that he would weigh in on the ‘busification.’ People twisted everything, claiming that I defended the enlistment center at first and then was commissioned by someone to criticise them,” explained Daryna Trunova.
In a comment to the Institute of Mass Information representative Valentyna Troyan, Daryna Trunova said that she was mostly being attacked by bots or people unknown to her. She saw no point in contacting the police at that juncture.
The circumstances of Roman Sopin’s death are being investigated, the Kyiv police reported in a Facebook post.