Syla Pravdy receives bomb threats via email

The Investigative Journalism Center "Syla Pravdy" received an email with bomb threats in their editorial inbox on February 20, Syla Pravdy director Yuriy Horbach reports to Maya Holub, the Institute of Mass Information representative in Volyn oblast.

Horbach says that the letter arrived in their editorial inbox this morning.

“A bomb has been planted in your building! I inform you of a life-threatening situation!” read the email's subject line.

The letter alleged that an unknown person had planted explosives in the building: 20 kg in TNT equivalent.

It also mentioned bombs being planted in nine buildings in different cities across Ukraine. Namely, buildings in Kryvyi Rih, Lutsk, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv and Odesa.

“From the moment you receive this letter, your life is in danger,” the sender said.

The Institute of Mass Information and Pershyi Kryvorizkyi received similar letters earlier today, February 20.