"Syla Pravdy" journalist receives bomb threats

Valentyna Kuts, a journalist at the Lutsk Center for Investigative Journalism "Syla Pravdy", received an email with a threat to blow up the building. The email mentions Ukrainian journalists whom the sender blames for the terrorist attack.

Valentyna Kuts reported this to the Institute of Mass Information representative in Volyn oblast, Maya Holub,.

The journalist said that she received the letter today, October 14, to her personal inbox, which she uses for work. The email arrived from the address <[email protected]> and was signed as Zalozetska Yavdokha Sarmativna. The sender asks to place all responsibility on the "terrorist group Fire Cells Group".

The letter mentions the threat of an act of terrorism that would endanger people's lives. The sender claims to have made a high-quality explosive device which they plan to activate during the busines day.

In the emails, the sender blames three journalists for the planted bomb: Iryna Sysak, Valeria Yehoshyna, and Yulia Khymeryk. These journalists are the authors of the new Radio Liberty investigation into Russia's FSB recruiting Ukrainian children to set fire to UAF cars, which was released on October 8.

Screenshot of the email, made by Valentyna Kuts

Earlier today, on October 14, multiple Ukrainian media outlets received bomb warnings to their corporate inboxes: the Suspilne Cherkasy team, the online news outlet "Pershyi Kryvorizkyi", and the International Multimedia Broadcasting Platform of Ukraine.

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