Volynski Novyny team receives bomb threats via email

The online media outlet Volynski Novyny received an email whose sender claimed to have planted bombs in schools, kindergartens, shopping malls, the administrative services center, the city hospital, and other institutions.

Volynski Novyny chief editor Ivan Savych reported this to Maya Holub, the Institute of Mass Information representative in Volyn oblast.

Ivan Savych says that this was the first time that the editorial team received such letter. He has contacted the police. His report has been registered.

The letter did not mention a specific city. The unknown sender threatened that the city’s cemeteries would soon be filled to the brim due to the explosives they planted.

In January and February, multiple media workers received emails with bomb threats. Namely, Volyn journalist Olha Bulkovska, Chernihiv media outlet Cheline, Pershyi Kryvorizkyi, etc.

Similar letters were mass mailed to Ukrainian journalists in 2024. The IMI recorded three waves (in October, November and December) of anonymous emails threatening to bomb editorial offices and institutions across Ukraine. These were identical emails sent to the inboxes of editorial offices and individual journalists. This year, media professionals have been receiving emails with bombing threats again.

The Security Service of Ukraine calls on citizens to report attempts to recruit them to plant pombs in territorial enlistment centers to the SBU chatbot “Expose the FSB”.

In February 2025, several explosions occurred near enlistment centers (TSC) in Ukraine. On February 5, an explosion went off near the TSC building in Kamyanets-Podilskyi. According to Suspilne Khmelnytskyi, the impact killed one man and injured four people. On February 2, an explosion went off near the TSC building in Pavlohrad (Dnipropetrovska oblast). On February 1, there was an explosion at the Rivne TSC, which killed the bomber and injured eight people.