More media outlets receive bomb threats

More Ukrainian media outlets received emails with bomb threats. Namely, these were "Detector Media" and "Ukrainian Pravda", which the outlets reported on their websites.

The letter that arrived in the "Detector Media" inbox claimed that the sender had planted explosives in the office building and intended to blow it up. The sender wrote that explosives had been planted in the offices of RBC-Ukraine and the Ukrainian Radio Liberty service, as well as the US Embassy, ​​the Ministry of Finance, and the Verkhovna Rada.

The author of the letter, who introduced himself as Oleksandr Assauliuk, asks that the "terrorist group Fire Cells Group" be considered responsible for the bombs.

The letters mention Ukrainian journalists whom the sender blames for terrorist attack.

"Ukrainian Pravda" reported receiving a letter claiming that their office had been mined as well.

Other bomb threats

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, LIGA.net journalist Volodymyr Fomichov, and several other Suspilne branches also received warnings about bombs planted in their buildings.

The letters list 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 journalists in question are Iryna Sysak, Valeria Yehoshyna, and Yulia Khymeryk, who 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.

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