Ukraine - September 2025

On 16 September, regular live television broadcasts of sessions of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) were reinstated for the first time since Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion. The move is part of a gradual reopening of the Rada to the media and the public, after press freedom and transparency were curtailed on security grounds as part of the country’s state of martial law. Previously, journalists were admitted to the Rada on 5 May for the first time since February 2022, although only a few dozen have been accredited, down from 4,000 before the war. 

Sources: Babel.ua, Reporters without Borders