During September-October 2025, 624 websites were restricted in Ukraine, including mainly online casinos, propaganda resources, sites with counterfeit alcohol and tobacco, as well as bookstores with Russian products.
During September-October 2025, 624 websites were restricted in Ukraine, including mainly online casinos, propaganda resources, sites with counterfeit alcohol and tobacco, as well as bookstores with Russian products.
This is reported by the UABlocklist service.
The largest number of blockings, as before, falls on online casinos - 391 sites disappeared from the Ukrainian Internet space at the initiative of PlayCity. These were both large portals and small sites disguised as legal services.
Propaganda resources are in second place in terms of number. The SBU and the State Service for Special Communications blocked over 120 sites, including foreign publications and Russian resources with networks of fake "Ukrainian" media.
In addition, regulators blocked 63 foreign websites from Moldova, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Germany, Slovakia, and other EU countries. All of them reproduced Kremlin narratives about war, sanctions, and so on.
5 Russian websites that openly supported the war or engaged in military propaganda were also restricted: official platforms of the occupation administrations of Donbas and regional websites.
The largest number of blockings fell on sites that imitated Ukrainian media — 75, which spread fakes about "normal life in the occupied territories" or "the collapse of European support for Ukraine."
Alcohol and tobacco are in third place in terms of the number of blocks. At the request of the Bureau of Economic Security and the SBU, 56 sites selling unlicensed alcohol were blocked. Most of them were disguised as duty-free services or online stores selling draft alcohol.
The National Center for Operational and Technical Control blocked another 40 websites that sold alcohol and tobacco products without licenses.
Online bookstores have become a new focus of regulators' attention: some of them continued to sell products from Russian publishers, despite the current ban. During this period, 8 such sites were blocked.
In addition, several isolated resources on other topics were blocked. In September, the website of the political party "Garant" was blocked, which called for a "complete change of power" and "re-establishment of the state." At the same time, the portal "Antikor" - known for its scandalous publications - was unblocked by a court decision, which became an exception to the practice of long-term restrictions during martial law.
In early October, Ukraine blocked four websites that advertised escort services and placed ads of an intimate nature without age restrictions. At the same time, access to the IP address of the cloud service Yandex Cloud, which belongs to the Russian company Yandex and was used to host pro-Russian online resources, was restricted.
