Khmelnytskyi-based journalist Alyona Bereza receives bomb threats

Alyona Bereza, a journalist with the Khmelnytskyi media outlet Zhar.Info and the Institute of Mass Information representative in Khmelnytskyi oblast, received an email with bomb threats.

According to her, she received two such letters – at around 1:00 p.m. and at 4:00 p.m. Both emails have dubious sender addresses and the text has spelling errors and looks as if it was translated automatically. The sender asks to place all responsibility on the "terrorist group Fire Cells Group".

The Khmelnytskyi oblast police received a total of nearly 50 reports about bombs planted in various facilities. These includd: state institutions, educational institutions, communal and private companies, reported Inna Hleha, the chief of communications at the Khmelnytskyi Oblast National Police HQ, to Suspilne Khmelnytskyi.

According to her, the letters started arriving to the institutions' emails at lunchtime.

Earlier today, on October 14, multiple Ukrainian media outlets received bomb warnings to their corporate inboxes: the Suspilne Cherkasy team, the online news outlet "Pershyi Kryvorizkyi", and the International Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine, as well as Valentyna Kuts, a journalist at the Lutsk Center for Investigative Journalism "Syla Pravdy". The email mentions Ukrainian journalists whom the sender blames for the terrorist attack. The sender asks to place all responsibility on the "terrorist group Fire Cells Group".

The National Police says that Russia may be behind the bomb warnings, aiming to destabilize the situation in Ukraine's regions.