Anastasia Stanko

Anastasia Romanivna "Nastia" Stanko (, Anastasiia Romanivna Stanko, born 1986) is a Ukrainian journalist, war reporter and TV broadcaster. She co-founded Hromadske, Ukraine's first independent newsroom, and is the editor-in-chief of Slidstvo.info Stanko's reputation grew during her live-streaming of the Maidan Revolution. While a journalism student in Lviv, in 2004, Stanko participated in the Orange Revolution, which succeeded in ousting Russia-backed President Viktor Yanukovich from his first term in office. Two months later, she reported from the field about Russia's occupation of Donbas, a region in eastern Ukraine. After her detention, Stanko was handed over to Ukrainian authorities with the request to pay a fine of 3,000 rubles and delete any photo and video materials.

On June 16, 2014, "Stop Censorship" organized a press conference in Kharkiv, where Stanko shared her experience. near Stanytsia Luhanska in eastern Ukraine, five men armed with AK-47s boarded their bus and put black hoods over their heads. They were taken by mini-bus, allegedly by agents of Russia's People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) to a basement which she later learned was located near the administrative offices of the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR),

In 2018 Stanko received the International Press Freedom Award, and in 2019 was honored by the International Women's Media Foundation. She was editor-in-chief of Hromadske from 2020 to 2021, and left to report from the front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since 2023 she been the editor-in-chief of Slidstvo.info, an investigative news agency.

Recognition Mezhyhiria Festival main prize, 2016 Committee to Protect Journalists International Press Freedom Award, 2018 International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award, 2019

Other activities Stanko is a member of the Plast organization.