In 2013, he entered the hundred most influential people in the country for the first time, according to the Correspondent magazine, taking 66th place in this list. In 2014, the President of PJSC Concern Galnaftogaz topped the ranking of the TOP-10 best managers in Ukraine according to the magazine Kompanion. According to FOCUS magazine, Antonov was among the hundred most influential Ukrainians in 2014. In 2015, Antonov took 28th place in the Top 100 best managers of Ukraine from Delo.UA. Also, the rating experts recognized him as one of the 10 Ukrainian business leaders with the highest reputation. In 2018, the traditional annual ranking of the best top managers of Ukraine by FOCUS magazine included Antonov in the TOP-3 in the retail segment. In the same year, according to the rating of Delo.UA, Antonov took the first place among the best CEOs according to experts and became the 38th in the general list of "300 best top managers of Ukraine". In September 2018, he was included in the list of the 100 most influential people in Ukraine according to Novoe Vremya magazine. In the ranking of innovation leaders, compiled by Leadership Journey together with the consulting company Nobles Fortune, the president of Concern Galnaftogaz Vitaliy Antonov took seventh place. In 2019, Antonov entered the annual ranking of FOCUS magazine, becoming one of the best managers in Ukraine in the retail segment. According to readers of Novoe Vremya, Antonov entered the top 12 business columnists, whose columns in 2019 collected the most views. He took third place in the ranking with the column "40 billion USD goes past the economy of Ukraine. What to do with it." In 2020, Antonov entered the annual ranking of FOCUS magazine, named as one of the best managers in Ukraine in the retail segment. Scandals On November 1, 2018, Russian sanctions were imposed against 322 citizens of Ukraine, including Antonov. On August 21, 2018, in the premises of the Lviv and Kyiv offices of PJSC Concern Galnaftogaz (OKKO filling station network), officers of the Security Service of Ukraine conducted searches with the seizure of documents and equipment. According to Antonov, he and his company are "accused of financing actions taken to overthrow the constitutional order and change Ukraine's state borders," including financing separatism in Eastern Ukraine. In addition, the SSU suspects the OKKO gas station network of operating in the Crimea. On October 25, 2018,