A wave of reports of “mass mining” swept across Ukraine on October 14.
In Ukraine, mass mining of buildings was anonymously reported, from government agencies to media editorial offices. The police checked this.
Explosives were searched in schools, city councils, buildings of the Ministry of Culture, premises of the High Council of Justice and the Kyiv Court of Appeal, other institutions in Kyiv, as well as in Chernihiv, Sumy, Zhytomyr, Lviv, Zaporozhye, Ivano-Frankivsk and other cities.
More than 60 foreign diplomatic institutions of Ukraine received anonymous letters about mined buildings. Structural units of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry received similar letters.
The Ukrainian publication LIGA.net also reported that its office had been mined. The inspection found that there was no danger – the workers had already returned to work.
Anonymous letters were sent to the email addresses of state authorities, local governments and other objects about the mining of their buildings. The sender, who introduced himself as Alexander Assaulyuk, promised to remotely detonate the mined premises. The terrorist group Fire Cells Group is responsible for this.
In the letter, Assaulyuk asks that Radio Liberty journalists Irina Sisak, Valeria Yegoshina and Yulia Khimerik be considered guilty of mining. On October 8, they published material about how the Russian special service is recruiting Ukrainian children to set fire to Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicles.
Assaulyuk lives in occupied Crimea and has a Russian passport, Schemes found out. The Fire Cells Group, which allegedly took responsibility for the “mass mining”, is actively calling on social networks to smoke the cars of the Ukrainian military. Representatives of the group also sent messages about “murders for rewards” of government officials in Ukraine.
The police have already checked the office of Radio Liberty in Kyiv – no explosives were found. The SBU says that the case should be considered as an IPSO aimed at spreading panic. Meanwhile, Radio Liberty President Stephen Capus noted that the publication would support the journalists whose names were mentioned in the letters.
The SBU told Schemes that the case should be considered as an IPSO aimed at spreading panic.
Source: Racurs
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