The editors of Zaporizhzhia outlet inform.zp.ua received two emails containing threats from an unknown Russian source on June 1 and June 4. The first email, sent using the Russian email service inbox.ru, threatened the journalists with criminal responsibility for their published articles in rhymed form and also included several pro-Russian messages. The second email once again contained pro-Russian messages and called the outlet’s messages “propaganda” and “lies”. The editors of the outlet stated that these were not the first of such threats.
UPDATE: On June 29, inform.zp.ua journalists received a new email in rhymed form from a Russian email address, where they were threatened with criminal cases for being “propaganda spreaders”. Emails with similar content were again sent to the media on July 1 and July 4. Zaporizhia outlet 061.ua also received two emails, on June 29 and June 30, which threatened the website’s journalists in the same format. Their author claimed they were “traitors of the motherland” who would eventually be imprisoned for “lying to the people”.