Two Kropyvnytskyi-based media outlets receive bomb threats twice in a day

The Kropyvnytskyi online news outlets Hrechka and Tochka Dostupu received bomb threats via email twice in one day, the editors report to the regional Institute of Mass Information representative Pavlo Lisnychenko.

Both media outlets received the emails on December 12. The messages were similar, with the senders claiming to be "ATO veterans" and threatening to bomb various facilities – embassies, hospitals, hotels, and schools. In one of the letters that arrived to both outlets' inboxes, the sender also offered to join his Telegram channel, which does not exist at the handle listed in the email.

"These emails often end up in the spam folder, so we don't notice them right away. Moreover, we know that this is part of the Russians' information war and they are deliberately 'mining' facilities in various cities across the country. The letter arouses great suspicion, starting from the address, ending with the gross grammatical errors and manipulative text. Which is why we do not respond to such provocations. However, if it were a real threat, of course we would have reported it to the police," commented Tochka Dostupu journalist Kateryna Fedchenko.

Hrechka editor Anastasia Dziubak supported her colleague. According to her, such emails are rarely taken seriously, but if the letter mentions objects located in Kirovohradska oblast, they pass the information to the police just in case.

As reported earlier, on Decembr 12, the PBC branches Suspilne Rivne and Suspilne Lutsk received emails claiming a bomb had been planted in their office. Five Zaporizhzhia media outlets received emails threatening to explode the buildings housing various institutions and organizations, as did Detector Media, the Volyn news outlet Buh, ZHAR.INFO founder and journalist, IMI representative in Khmelnytskyi oblast Alyona Bereza, IMI representative in Rivne oblast Hanna Kalaur, Lutsk-based media outlet Volyn Online, and Espreso.