Author of massive bombings blames investigative journalists for his actions

On October 14, police reported that they were checking a number of facilities in Odesa region because of a bomb threat, the author of which accused Radio Liberty journalists of the act.

According to the publication, the letter was signed by a person who called himself a representative of a "terrorist group" after the name of the anti-Ukrainian telegram channel of the same name, which spreads calls to burn cars of the Ukrainian military and persecute soldiers of the Territorial Recruitment Centers (TCC).

As "Skhemy" (Radio Liberty) found out, a person with the same identity as the sender of the threatening letter lives in Russia-occupied Crimea and has a Russian passport.

The threatening letter, which was sent to hundreds of organizations, mentions Radio Liberty journalists Iryna Sysak and Valeria Yegoshyna, as well as freelancer Yulia Khymerik, whom the sender "blames" for the allegedly planned bombings.

On October 8, journalists from the Schemes project founded by the publication published an investigation into how Russians recruit Ukrainians to set fire to military vehicles. According to Skhemy journalists, the group that claimed responsibility for the "mass mining" is actively spreading messages on social media calling for the burning of Ukrainian military vehicles and demonstrating the results of arson attacks. For this "work", they offer from $100 USD.

Also, as journalists discovered, in early October, representatives of the same group sent messages to a number of Ukrainian government agencies offering to "kill for a fee" top security officials and public figures. They introduced themselves as an organization that "has long been engaged in the execution of orders for violent actions and the resolution of issues through physical elimination," and called "holding actions of mass disorder, mining of state structures, and subversive activities of any level" their "priority" activities.

The SBU press service told Skhemy that "the case of mass mailing of fake mining messages should be viewed through the prism of a psychological operation aimed at spreading panic among the citizens of our country."

Кирило Бойко