Hoax event in Volyn, Lusk area, Ukraine on Mon 14th October 2024

Valentyna Kuts, a journalist at the Lutsk Center for Investigative Journalism "Strength of Truth", received an e-mail threatening to detonate a building. The letter mentions Ukrainian journalists whom the sender calls guilty of the alleged terrorist attack.

She informed the representative of the Institute of Mass Information in the Volyn Region, Maya Holub, about this.

The journalist said that she received the letter today, October 14, to her personal mail, which she uses for work. A message was received from the address < [email protected] > from the addressee Zalozetska Yavdokh Sarmativna. The sender of the letter asks to place all responsibility on the "terrorist group Fire Cells Group".

The letter mentions the threat of a terrorist act that poses a danger to people's lives. Like, the sender made a high-quality explosive device, which is allegedly activated during the working day. 

In the letters, the sender names three journalists as guilty "for undermining": Iryna Sysak, Valeriya Yegoshina, and Yuria Khymyryk. These journalists are the authors of a new investigation by Radio Liberty, which was released on October 8, about the recruitment of Ukrainian children by the FSB of Russia to set fire to the cars of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 

As reported by IMI, today, October 14, a number of media outlets received reports of mining of corporate e-mails: Suspilne Cherkasy , online media "Pershiy Kryvorizky" , state enterprise " Multimedia Platform for Internationalization of Ukraine ".

The National Police does not rule out that Russia is involved in reports of landmines with the aim of destabilizing the situation in the regions of Ukraine.