Alerts | Verbal attack or intimidation by authorities

Editor-in-chief of Zaporizhzhya-based news website receives threats from Russian numbers

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Eric Brynza, the editor-in-chief of inform.zp.ua, a Zaporizhzhya based news website, received threats from Russian numbers to his Telegram messenger. The threats started on March 30 and continued over the following days. The threats repeated that he will be held accountable when Russians occupy the southeastern Ukrainian city and that his media was publishing news which violated several articles of the Russian Criminal Code.

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