Two Volyn media outlets received emails with threats from russia.
The editorial staff of “Volyn Online” and “Konkurent” shared this with the IMI representative.
The letters were sent from the mail.ru email service (banned in Ukraine) and contain threats of criminal prosecution for “fakes and lies about the actions of russian armed forces in Ukraine.”
As the editor of the “Volyn Online” news website Maryana Metelska, on April 7 in the afternoon a letter in russian has been sent to the editorial staff’s email by the user “Vladislav Yefremov.”
This email read: “All the staff of Ukrainian media and websites who spread fake news and lies about the actions of russian troops on Ukranian territory and cover for the banderites will face criminal prosecution in the nearest future. No one will go unpunished.”
The journalist told that she has not received such letters before. Maryana Metelska attempted to reply to the letter and advise the sender to follow the russian warship. However, she could not send the email, as an error message popped up that the mail.ua domain address was not found.
The editor of “Konkurent” news agency Andriy Luchik has also received a similar letter. The email was sent by the user “Konstantin Lavrentiev.”
The journalist stated that before the letter arrived, a man with a Moscow phone number had called him, offering certain website maintenance services, to which the editor replied, “What do you need, moskalyk?” and sent the man after the russian warship.
061.ua has received similar threats three times before: on March 25, March 26, and March 28.
It will be recalled that on March 25, several Ukrainian media received anonymous letters with threats – European Pravda, Hlavkom and Zaporizhzhia sites 061.ua and inform.zp.ua. They are threatened with interrogation and imprisonment under the articles “extremism” and “terrorism.”
“Krym.Realii” media outlet received an e-mail with threats of imprisonment in Siberia for “spreading fakes about the Russian army.”