by Owen Sullivan | 29 September 2025
Hungary has moved to block a dozen Ukrainian news portals including European Pravda and Ukrainska Pravda, calling it reciprocity after Kyiv restricted access to Hungarian outlets. On 29 September 2025 Budapest announced that access would be cut to:
tsn.ua
oboz.ua
anons-zak.com.ua
ungvar.uz.ua
zakarpattya.net.ua
pravda.com.ua
hromadske.ua
nv.ua
lb.ua
insiderinfo.com.ua
uaonline.com.ua
eurointegration.com.ua
Officials claim this is a mirror response, but the effect is that audiences in an EU member state can no longer reach Ukrainian outlets vital for war coverage, corruption investigations and fact checks. Hungary’s leaders insist the move is temporary, yet bans like this often outlast their announcements and immediately chill reporting.
The timing of this move seems to be no coincidence, as Hungarian drones invading Ukrainian airspace have flamed tensions between the two European countries. The European Commission will now be pressed to explain how an EU government blocking cross‑border news access squares with its media freedom promises.