Hungary has taken measures to prohibit a number of Ukrainian media outlets in response to the blocking of several pro-Russian Hungarian publications in Ukraine. This was announced by Hungarian government spokesperson Zoltan Kovach on social media platform X.
In his post, Kovach quoted statements from the head of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s office, Gergely Gulyás.
According to Gulyás, Ukraine has blocked foreign, including Hungarian, news websites for allegedly ‘daring to criticize sanctions against Russia, military aid to Ukraine, and portraying the European Union and NATO as fragmented and not particularly effective organizations’.
It is noted that, ‘following the principle of reciprocity, Hungary is today implementing mirror measures against Ukrainian news portals, which will no longer be accessible in Hungary’.
The list of banned outlets includes 12 Ukrainian media outlets, such as: 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.
In Ukraine, 15 foreign websites were blocked for spreading Russian propaganda, including Hungarian-language resources: News Front, Bal-Rad, Hirlistazo, Demokrata, Vdtablog, Origo, Szilaj Csikó, Pravda Magyarország.