Access to the website of the Ukrainian Syla Pravdy Centre for Investigative Journalism has been blocked in Russia, the news outlet reports.
The team learned about the ban incidentally: a Russian citizen wrote them an email offering help in protecting or hiding the Syla Pravdy domain.
In a comment to Maya Holub, the Institute of Mass Information representative in Volyn oblast, the news outlet’s journalist Oleh Kryshtof said that the email had arrived in the editorial inbox and they saw it by chance.
The journalists learned that Russia’s Federal Service for Communications (Roskomnadzor) included the website in the ban list on 12 August 2025 and the decision took effect on 14 August.
The Syla Pravdy team says that the Russian register lists no reasons for the ban. The journalists suggest that Roskomnadzor’s attention may have been attracted by their reporting about the trial against musician and treason convict Illya Smetanin, who helped the Russian army aim the missile strike on the Lutsk military airfield at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. The news outlet also reported on the aftermath of the Russian air strikes on 6 June and 9 July. In November 2025, the team investigated the Russian forces’ efforts to recruit Ukrainian children and coerce them into committing crimes.
The news outlet points out that the website’s traffic from Russian users has somewhat increased since it was blocked.