It is ranked among the top 3 Telegram channels in Ukraine according to the Ukrainian Institute of Media and Communications.
[6] The second noticeable increase in readers to 400,000 subscribers occurred during the coronavirus epidemic events from March to May 2020.
[7][8] On 24 February 2022, following the start of a full-scale invasion, the channel's journalists were among the first to confront the information war and began to combat misinformation.
[13] From the first days of the major war, the channel engaged in the volunteer movement and began actively organizing collections for the Ukrainian army.
[14] In the summer of 2023, Ukraine Online, in collaboration with charity initiative KOLO,[15] raised 6 million hryvnias for the purchase of the LELEKA unmanned aerial vehicle complex.