Alerts | Online intimidation or smear

Ukrainian media 061.ua threatened repeatedly

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Online publication 061.ua based in Zaporzhzhia received repeated online threats linked to its coverage of the war. The letters the media received came from mail.ru email address by the name Sasha Isayev. They contained a linked to a Telegram channel of hacker group “NoName”. The letter said, among other things, that journalists would be jailed.

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