ZHAR.INFO journalist receives another bomb threat via email

On December 12, the ZHAR.INFO founder and journalist Alyona Bereza, received an email from someone claiming to be an “ATO participant” who claimed to have planted a bomb in building where the media outlet's office is located. The email also mentioned other supposedly mined facilities in different oblasts, Alyona Bereza reported to the Institute of Mass Information.

“This is not the first letter of similar content that I have received to my personal official inbox. Previously, there was an email that looked like it had been translated from Russian through an automated translator. This time, the information is presented somewhat better. However, there are some inaccuracies: the sender claims to be a woman who says it is “SBU data”, and halfway through they switch to the masculine pronouns. It feels like the enemy really wants us to be emotionally unstable in addition to the shelling,” says Alyona Bereza.

Screenshot of the letter received by the journalist

The sender also claimed to be a “war invalid” and said that they had planted a “makeshift explosive device” in the office building, threatening to activate it remotely within five days.

The email listed seven more addresses: a school in Odesa, the Tanzanian embassy in Ukraine, a district police department in Lviv, the Kyiv City Clinical Hospital and a hotel in the capital, a broadcasting station in Ivano-Frankivsk, and the Odesa National Polytechnic University.

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 and the Volyn news outlet Buh.