Journalist, blogger Olha Khudetska is receiving violent threats after writing an X thread about the non-transparent spending of donation money by the Hospitallers Medical Battalion.
Khudetska reported this in a comment to the Institute of Mass Information journalist Valentyna Troyan.
Khudetska does not plan to contact the police about this. “I don’t see the point. I don’t know of any cases where online threats were successfully investigated,” the journalist said.
The threats, screenshots of which Khudetska posted, included those of physical retaliation such as “breaking her legs.”
When asked who exactly could be behind the threats, Olha Khudetska said she did not rule out that it could be people who believed that in this way they were defending the battalion’s commander, MP Yana Zinkevych.
On the other hand, it could also be the Russians, who often try to play up the tensions within Ukrainian society. “There could be different actors here,” the journalist added.
Olha Khudetska said that after she posted about the threats on Facebook, Yana Zinkevych wrote a post saying she did not approve of such efforts.
“But this did not cool things down. It’s just that instead of ‘I will break your legs,’ they now write I should ‘burn in hell,’ ‘prepare for trouble when I meet you,'” Olha Khudetska said.