Suspilne Lutsk receives bomb threats via email
Photo by Suspilne Lutsk
Suspilne Lutsk, the Lutsk branch of the National Public Broadcasting Company, received several emails claiming a bomb had been planted in their building on December 12. The team had to contact the police.
Suspilne Lutsk manager Lyudmyla Hetmanchuk, reported this to the Institute of Mass Information representative in Volyn oblast, Maya Holub.
According to Hetmanchuk, four such letters arrived at the Suspilne Lutsk corporate inbox in one day.
The sender asked to take their claim seriously, and then said that they had planted a bomb in the building. The emails also warned of bombs in other buildings across the country, listing the addresses.
“The content is almost identical in all the emails. The only thing that differed was the addresses of the mined facilities. One letter mentioned the Embassy of Algeria in Ukraine, the other was about the Embassy of Iran. There was also a university in Ivano-Frankivsk, and a school in Ternopil,” said Lyudmyla Hetmanchuk.
“As soon as we received the email, I immediately dialed 102, a police squad arrived, they went around the entire building, looked through every office, and drew up a report,” she added.
On December 12, Suspilne Rivne, the Rivne branch of the National Public Broadcasting Company, received an email claiming that a bomb had been planted in the office and had to temporarily evacuate the staff.
Earlier, on November 26, Yuriy Horbach, the director of the Investigative Journalism Center for "Syla Pravdy", received an email threatening bomb attacks in Kyiv and Odesa oblasts to his personal inbox.
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