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, chief editor Lesya Lazorenko reports to Nadia Kucher, the Institute of Mass Information representative in Poltava oblast.
Lazorenko said that, the letter referred to upcoming terrorist attacks at several facilities.
“We received a letter by unknown persons who said they could not give their names but possessed information that could prevent a catastrophe. The email continued, ‘Our ‘curators’ made us participate in the preparation of terrorist attacks. They promised us big money, but we cannot live with this. We made several explosive devices based on the plastic explosive PVV-4,'” said Lesya Lazorenko.
She added that the senders listed several locations where bombs had supposedly been planted: the Halaktyka shopping mall (Kremenchuk), the Kremenchuk City Council, the Kremenchuk railway and bus stations, the Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University of Kremenchuk, the shopping mall Yevropa (Horishni Plavni), the Horishni Plavni Town Council, the Zolotnyshyne railway station (Horishni Plavni), the Horishni Plavni bus station, the Horishni Plavni Vocational College, the shopping mall Myrhorod (Myrhorod), the Myrhorod City Council, the Myrhorod railway and bus stations, the M. Gogol College of Arts and Industry in Myrhorod, the shopping mall Lubny (Lubny), the Lubny City Council, the Lubny railway and bus stations.
As reported earlier, 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.
National Police departments in 22 oblasts received over 2,000 bomb reports on 30 January 2026. Namely, Detector Media, 18000, and Pershyi Kryvorizkyi received emails to that effect.