ZMINA, Ukraine's WW2 History Museum receive bomb threats

The ZMINA Center for Human Rights and the Museum of Ukraine's History in the Second World War received warnings about bombs planted in their buildings, as reported on the organization's website and the museum's Facebook page.

According to ZMINA, the letter said that the organization's office was mined and would soon explode. The sender signed as Oleksandr Vitaliyovych Assauliuk and claimed to represent the terrorist group Fire Cells Group.

The text has multiple spelling errors. The organization assumes that it was translated automatically, for instance, with Google Translate.

"I don't want innocent people to die, I planted some explosive devices in your building and very soon it will explode, you will know the pain and suffering, I made a very high quality explosive device that will be activated remotely during the business day, all infidels go to heaven, may Allah's will be done.

You will know all the pain I feel, all my explosive devices were made in vacuum packs, which prevents sniffer dogs from finding them, Your building will collapse like a house of cards, so many people will die!

You will all fly into the air, there will be many victims, you will all die! There will be many maimed and wounded, all this in the name of Allah!", the letter says.

The National Museum of Ukraine's History in the Second World War temporarily closed down due to a similar letter. The organizers canceled the public lecture "Luhansk: the land of Ukraine's patriots", scheduled on the 82nd anniversary of the creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which was supposed to begin at 2:00 p.m.

By the time of this news being written, the museum has said they had resumed operations.

The representative of the Institute of Mass Information in Luhansk oblast, Valentyna Troyan, also received a similar letter to her e-mail, albeint threatening a different person and not her.

The Hromadske Radio host Anastasia Bahalyka also reported a letter with bomb threats.

She noted that the letter had many errors.

"Can't even write a decent threat letter, and they want to be a terrorist," Anastasia wrote.

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.