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covid-19

Affiliated media: molbuk.ua, Online news outlet

Incident date: April 30, 2020

Attack type:

  • Non-physical and/or cyber-attacks and threats

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: molbuk.ua

Location: Ukraine, Chernivtsi Oblast, Chernivtsi

Additional information:

Arhimandrit Nikita, the secretary of the Chernivtsi-Bukovina Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, whose possible coronavirus infection was reported on the newspaper’s website, came to sort things out with the editors, pointedly coughing and touching objects. Later, he wrote a statement to the Security Service of Ukraine demanding that the newspaper’s office be shut for quarantine.

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