Zaporizhzhia website 061.ua continues to receive threats from Russia – the editorial team received three more threatening letters between April 7 and 9.
The team shared this with IMI representative in Zaporizhzhia oblast.
The letters were sent from the mail.ru service. The emails’ topics read: “To read. IMPORTANT,” “Read and think,” “Must read.” They are yet again about facing criminal responsibility for “spreading fakes and lies.”
“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,” says the email sent on April 7 by user “Alexander Medvedev.”
The next email, from Artem Krasilnikov, recommends the editoial staff to “learn some prison slang, for you have very few moments of freedom left.”
On April 9, the team received another letter from Artem Osipov that briefly informs that “every media person spreading propagandist fakes will soon be held accountable with all the severity of the Russian Federation’s law.”
On April 11, the team received a letter from Artem Krasilnikov again, threatening interrogation and incarceration. The email states that “soon all the journalists who support Zelenskyi’s neo-Nazi regime will be sent to investigating authorities to be questioned and charged, with subsequent deployment to penal facilities.”
On April 7–11, the Volyn media outlets Konkurent and Volyn Online received similar letters.
061.ua has received similar threats three times before: on March 25, March 26, and March 28.
On March 25, several Ukrainian news outlets received emails with threats: European Pravda, Glavkom, and the Zaporizhzhia websites 061.ua and inform.zp.ua.