The Verkhovna Rada has registered a draft resolution on the return of live broadcasts of parliamentary sessions
A draft resolution has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the restoration of live broadcasts of plenary sessions of the parliament. About this reported Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, head of the Committee on Freedom of Speech.
The draft resolution is registered under number 1963027. It provides that the meetings of the Verkhovna Rada should be broadcast in real time on the Rada TV channel and YouTube channel.
“An exception to delayed broadcasts or recording stops may be air alarms in Kyiv or danger warnings from our special services,” – noted Yaroslav Yurchyshyn.
Live broadcasts of the Verkhovna Rada sessions were halted after the full-scale Russian invasion began. In January 2025, broadcasts of parliamentary committee meetings were resumed, but not of the plenary meetings themselves.
We will remind, on July 28, representatives of public organizations and the media turned to to the parliament with the demand to return the online broadcasts of the plenary sessions on the TV channel “Rada” and to publish the agenda in advance.
“We, representatives of public organizations and the media, call on the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to resume the online broadcast of plenary sessions on the Rada TV channel and the early publication of the agendas of these sessions. In particular, from the next session, which will consider an important draft law on restoring the independence of NABU and SAP.
These decisions are of fundamental importance for anti-corruption reform, international trust in Ukraine, and European integration. That is why society should be able to see in real time how people’s deputies vote and what position is voiced publicly. We live in conditions of great mistrust and social tension. Transparency of decision-making is not a formality, but the basis of the parliament’s trust. The secrecy only strengthens suspicions about behind-the-scenes arrangements and discredits the institutions.” – said in a joint statement of public organizations and the media.
