Dmytro Ivanitsky

Affiliated media: Pervomaisk City, Administrator

Incident date: March 5, 2023

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Pervomaisk City

Location: Ukraine, Mykolaiv Oblast, Pervomaisk

Additional information:

The administrator of a local Telegram channel said that he was threatened by the mayor after his channel started publishing information about the mayor’s salary increase, as well as possible embezzlement of funds. In his turn, the mayor of Pervoimask Oleh Demchenko confirms the conflict with Ivanitsky, but the reason is that Ivanitsy, who is the former head of the city’s press service, kept access to all the city council’s pages in social networks.