LIGA.net correspondent, Suspilne branches receive bomb threats

Multiple Suspilne branches received emails with office bombing threats, Suspilne reports.

LIGA.net journalist Volodymyr Fomichov received a similar letter to the media outlet's corporate inbox, which he reported on Facebook.

"WARNING! A bomb has been planted in your office and will explode today, October 14, 2024. Evacuate the people for their safety. I don't want innocent people to die, I have planted some explosive devices in your building and very soon it will explode and you will know the pain and suffering. I have made a high-quality explosive device that will be activated remotely during the business day," says the email received by Suspilne and multiple other Ukrainian organizations.

The sender asks that all responsibility be placed on the "terrorist group Fire Cells Group" and blames the Radio Liberty Ukraine journalists Iryna Sysak, Valeria Yehoshyna and Yuliya Khymeryk for the planted bombs.

LIGA.net correspondent Volodymyr Fomichov also reported receiving a similar letter to his corporate inbox.

"The wannabe terrorists mentioned our colleagues from Radio Liberty: Iryna Sysak, Valeria Yehoshyna, and Yulia Khymeryk, as the people to blame. And I actually think there is a reason for this. Valeria, Ira and Yulia recently released a large investigation into Russia's GRU recruiting our citizens and asking them to blow up military vehicles for a small payment," Fomichov said.

He assumed that in this way the authors of the email want to intimidate the active citizens.

"So that nothing prevents the Russians from damaging the vehicles of our soldiers, so that we do not draw the attention of our compatriots to this and they may continute to recruit them in peace. This is just my guess, but maybe it's true," Fomichov added.

As reported earlier, the journalists Iryna Sysak, Valeria Yehoshyna, and Yulia Khymeryk, mentioned in the letters, are the authors of the Radio Liberty investigation into the FSB's recruitment of Ukrainian children to set fire to UAF cars, released on October 8.

On October 14, multiple Ukrainian media outlets received bomb warnings to their corporate inboxes: the Suspilne Cherkasy team, the online news outlet "Pershyi Kryvorizkyi", the International Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine, the "Syla Pravdy" journalist Valentyna Kuts, Suspilne Rivne, Khmelnytskyi-based journalist The ZMINA Center for Human Rights and the Museum of Ukraine's History in the Second World War also received warnings about bombs planted in their buildings.

The letter lists the Ukrainian journalists whom the sender blames for the possible bombings. 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.