Dmitry Kuzubov

Affiliated media: Lyuk news , Editor-in-chief

Incident date: September 8, 2021

Attack type:

• Bullying, intimidation, pressure, threats of violence and death, including cyber-

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: ZMINA Human Rights Centre

Location: Ukraine, Kharkiv Oblast, Kharkiv

Additional information:

A spam attack was launched against Dmitry Kuzubov, the Editor-in-chief of the Kharkov online magazine "Lyuk," as well as their Telegram channel. This followed the publication of a video clip in support of the LGBT community. Soon after the clip was published, the publication’s readers began receiving threats from anonymous accounts on Telegram. Calls for attacks were distributed among right-wing Telegram channels. Unknown individuals also tried to gain access to Kuzubov’s other social media accounts. Earlier, on 7 September, a spam attack was launched on the publication’s chat: in less than a minute, anonymous accounts left more than 2,000 messages on it.