Zelenskyy instructs Danilov to block pro-Russian website

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has responded to a petition calling for strana.ua, a pro-Russian website, to be blocked, instructing Oleksii Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council (NSCD), to deal with this issue.

Source: Zelenskyy's response to the petition; Detector Media 

Details: The president noted that NSDC sanctions have been applied to the resources mentioned in the petition, and that Oleksii Danilov is responsible for organising the NSDC’s work and ensuring that its decisions are implemented.

The petition has therefore been forwarded to Danilov with a request that he "review it" and "take the necessary measures in response".

Colonel Bohdan Senyk, head of the Public Relations Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that Strana.ua had not received accreditation from the Public Relations Department.

Quote from Senyk: "Since February, this media outlet has not received any accreditation from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. How its representatives got to Kherson - if this did in fact happen, which I am not sure about - should be established by the special services."

The National Police has suggested that Strana.ua employees may have entered Kherson as ordinary citizens rather than as journalists.

The petition, entitled "Ensure that the pro-Russian website strana.ua is properly blocked and all cooperation with the state authorities is terminated", was started on 28 September 2022 by a citizen named R.O. Balan.

Personal economic and other sanctions have reportedly already been applied twice to the individuals and companies mentioned in the petition.

Numerous sanctions have been applied over a period of three years to specific individuals (Ihor Huzhva, Hanna Solntseva and Liubov Lukashina) and legal entities (the limited liability companies Lasmak, Madzheri and Smart Media Network).

Furthermore, on 30 December 2021, the NSDC took the decision to block access by internet providers to web resources/services located on the domains and subdomains strana.ua, strana.news, strana.one, strana.digital, strana.today, and other web resources/services that provide access to the Strana.ua portal (a web resource/service that is similar (identical) in terms of content), and to restrict access by electronic service providers (social media services) from the territory of Ukraine to content posted on Facebook.com/gazetastranaua, @strana.ua, vk.com/stranaua and ok.ru/stranaua.

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