The news outlet MediaDokaz (based in Kremenchuk, Poltava oblast) received two emails threatening to detonate bombs on several locations on 30 January, chief editor Alyona Malichenko reported to Nadia Kucher, the Institute of Mass Information representative in Poltava oblast.
Malichenko said that the emails ended up in the spam folder, so the team was late to notice them.
The sender introduced themselves as a Ukrainian Armed Forces veteran and explosives specialist, claiming that about 500 explosive devices had been planted in administrative buildings, educational facilities, and crowded locations. The emails also contained threats to detonate the explosives on 30–31 January.
“And you will have 15 minutes to leave your building, otherwise you will die and there will be casualties among the civilian population,” the sender wrote in the email, says Alyona Malichenko.
The news outlet reported that the list of locations where “timed bombs were allegedly planted” included the following facilities: Koza Dereza (Lviv); Kyiv City Administration; MoD Intelligence Department; Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, SBU’s Kyiv HQ; Embassy of Ukraine in Montenegro (Podgorica); Tavria National University’s Kyiv College of Urban Economy; Firtka Publishing House (Ivano-Frankivsk); US Embassy in Ukraine.
As reported earlier, the news website Kremenchutskyi Telegraf (Poltava oblast) received an email on 2 February claiming that bombs had been planted in two dozen facilities in the oblast.
Three news websites based in Poltava oblast (Poltavska Dumka, Poltavska Khvylya, and Kremenchutskyi Telegraf), received emails claiming that bombs had been planted in their office buildings on 30 January 2026. National Police departments in 22 oblasts received over 2,000 bomb reports on the same day. Namely, Detector Media, 18000, and Pershyi Kryvorizkyi received emails to that effect.