On March 26, Zaporizhzhia website 061.ua received another letter with threats and demands to resign. The regional representative of IMI was told about it by the staff of the website.
This time the letter was signed by “Radiy Ryzhkov” and sent from the mail.ru, which is banned in Ukraine, again.
The letter, in particular, says that soon the Russian army “will occupy all cities of Ukraine, the interim authority would be established in Ukraine and the military tribunal to investigate the war crimes of the Zelenskyy regime is to be set up.”
“All journalists and employees of the Ukrainian media who were engaged in propaganda to please the neo-Nazis and spread fakes against the russian army will be prosecuted and sentenced to real prison terms,” the letter reads.
The author of the letter urges the editorial staff to “resign immediately until it’s too late”, recommends to sabotage the orders from the media leadership and “switch to Russian side”. If these conditions are not met, journalists are threatened with penal labor in Russian colonies in the Siberian Federal District.
We remind on March 25, several Ukrainian media have already received similar letters – “European Pravda,” “Hlavkom,” and the Zaporizhzhia sites 061.ua and inform.zp.ua. They were also threatened with interrogation and imprisonment under the articles “extremism” and “terrorism.”
Krym.Realii media outlet has received an email containing threats of imprisonment in Siberia for “spreading fakes about Russian army.”