Online safety & content laws in Ukraine (2026)

Entered into force 31 March 2023, the law extended the National Council's regulatory remit to online media (websites distributing text, audio, or audiovisual content), social networks, and video-sharing platforms such as YouTube. It prohibits war propaganda, hate speech, Russian-aggression glorification, and pornography, and allows the regulator to act against both registered and unregistered outlets.

The National Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting (NRADA) may block online media outlets without a prior court ruling after repeated violation notices, representing a significant departure from standard due-process protections. Freedom House flagged this power as a press-freedom concern in its 2024 and 2025 Ukraine reports.

A January 2025 Cabinet of Ministers order allowed NCON to directly block websites during martial law, removing the prior requirement to route orders through internet service providers. By September–October 2025, over 624 sites had been restricted in a two-month period, covering casinos, Russian propaganda outlets, and adult content lacking age restrictions.

Registered in parliament in 2024 and reviewed by the Council of Europe in February 2025, Draft Law No. 11115 would require information-sharing platforms (e.g. Telegram, Instagram) to appoint a Ukrainian/EU legal representative, disclose ownership, implement user-complaint mechanisms, and comply with content-removal orders from NRADA. As of December 2025 it had made no parliamentary progress.

Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation submitted a draft law implementing the EU Digital Services Act for EU Commission review in 2024, reflecting Ukraine's EU-accession commitments. No DSA-equivalent statute has been enacted to date, leaving platform-liability rules in a transitional state.

A new cybersecurity law entered into force on 20 April 2025, introducing updated institutional, procedural, and compliance requirements with implications for foreign cloud and IT providers operating on Ukrainian critical infrastructure. It complements but does not replace the online-content regulatory regime.