Blog of Anatoly Shariy 25.08. How blogger Anatoly Shariy fired the Minister of Information of Ukraine

  • 15.04.2024

Since 2014, Anatoly Shariy has been actively criticizing the events in Ukraine after the Revolution of Dignity, as well as the Ukrainian government. He escaped from Ukraine after a criminal case was opened against him regarding the shooting at the capital's McDonald's. For the last few years he has been living in Europe, which also did not prevent the Central Election Commission from registering him as a candidate for people's deputy. In April 2019, the court canceled the arrest and search for Shariy.

His video blog and personal website are monetized, that is, they generate income from views. He focuses the attention of his colleagues and readers on the fact that he is a “Ukrainian” journalist.

Biography

Born on August 20, 1978 in Kyiv. Higher education. Former Observer journalist.

He says that he studied at the Kiev Higher Tank Engineering School (regimental intelligence department). There is a problem with the Kyiv Higher Tank Engineering School. People enter the school after school at the age of 17-18, i.e. if he was born on August 20, 1978, then he should have enrolled in 1995 and later... And this means that he should have graduated from the Kiev Institute of Ground Forces.

In 2005 he entered journalism - “He never talks about what he did before he entered journalism at the beginning of 2005.

Operating since 2005:

In glossy publications in Ukraine “Natalie”, “The One and Only”, “Polina”; in the Ukrainian newspaper Segodnya.

In Russia, he collaborated with the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets and others.

2006 - during the period of Shariy’s work in women’s glossy magazines, his article “Why is the child sleeping,” written in December 2006, in which Shariy raises the issue of the use of children by professional beggars in Kyiv. The article becomes a long-term hit on the Runet.

From 2008 to the beginning of 2012 (when Shariy fled Ukraine) he was the head of the “Investigations” department of the Obozrevatel website.

Family

As of March 2012, Sharia’s wife worked in Kyiv as deputy editor-in-chief “in a well-known women’s publication.” They have a daughter. In May 2012, the couple divorced.

On November 19, 2013, on the Mediananny website, which publishes details of the personal lives of Ukrainian journalists, there was a message that Shariy lives in the Netherlands and was getting married - he became engaged to journalist Olga Bondarenko

Private bussiness

A journalist whose undoubted strong point is investigations. Investigations into anything and everything - from schemes for theft of budget funds to bribery of passport officers. Anatoly’s past is covered in a dense veil of secrecy, and information about what Shariy did before joining journalism appears only from time to time in the form of excerpts from articles in domestic publications many years ago with contradictory content.

It is known for certain that Anatoly, a native of Kiev, was a cadet at a tank school with a specialization in “regimental intelligence,” but upon completion of his studies he disappeared from the sight of both the military registration and enlistment office and many close acquaintances. He appeared years later as a regular author of articles on psychological topics for the Natalie magazine. He also worked closely with the publications “Edinnaya”, “Moskovsky Komsomolets”, and with Moscow glossy magazines, but at the peak of his fee success, he plunged headlong into the Internet, and retrained from a relationship psychologist into a tough oppositionist of the then “orange power”. Today, according to Shariy himself, he “kills everyone, indiscriminately,” and receives “almost sexual pleasure” from negative comments.

Anatoly was invited to the publication by the breeders of the Observer, which, according to him, he never regretted.

Conflicts with the Ministry of Internal Affairs

  • On May 1, 2011, Anatoly Shariy shot twice at a visitor to a McDonald's diner in Kyiv. According to Shariy, while he was having dinner with his wife, an unknown person approached him and began to insult him. When the journalist asked him to calm down, he suggested going out to “sort it out.” On the street, Shariy shot him twice with a traumatic pistol, hitting him in the leg and stomach. Shariy, who called the police himself, was detained and the pistol was confiscated.

According to another version (including activists of the public organization "Road Control", the initiator of the collision was Shariy himself, who shot a McDonald's visitor in the back. At the same time, attention is focused on the discrepancy between the description of the events and the video from the surveillance camera.

On Journalist Day of Ukraine (June 6), Shariy was awarded by Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vasily Farinnik “For professionalism and objectivity in covering the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.”

On June 16, Shariy’s colleague, journalist Alexander Chalenko, Advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs Konstantin Stogniy, informed that the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyiv, General Krikun, was personally tasked by Minister Mogilev to “resolve the issue with Shariy” in order to prevent the writing of further negative materials about the UBNON Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On June 20, Shariy gave a press conference in Obozrevatel and stated that “the case of the shooting at McDonald’s” is pressure from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and UBNON; He also said that he lived openly and did not change his mobile phone. The Jewish World newspaper, published in the United States, published an article claiming that the name of the unknown person who provoked the conflict in the diner appears on the lists of freelance agents of the Kyiv police.

On June 21, a criminal case was initiated against Shariy under Article 296 Part 4. criminal code. Police officers appeared at the Observer and, while video cameras were recording, handed Shari a summons. Investigators from the Shevchenko SO TUM-3 investigated the case in 4 working days.

During the trial in case No. 10-26059 on the shooting at McDonald's, prosecution witnesses stated that before testifying in the Shevchenkovsky District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyiv, they were familiarized with video recordings from surveillance cameras. The judge of the Shevchenkovsky Court of the city of Kyiv refused all requests to summon witnesses in the case who could cast doubt on the indictment, to request a video from the McDonald's hall, to request a table layout, and so on. Observers from the “representative office of the European Commission in Kyiv” promised to attend the trial.

  • In the spring of 2011, Shariy began writing on topics of the fight against organized crime; exclusive information on drug trafficking and illegal gambling became available to him. Shariy took part in such operations as “closing an underground casino.”
  • In 2011, together with journalists from the 1+1 channel, he conducted a series of investigations dedicated to the protection of the drug trade in Ukraine by the UBNON Ministry of Internal Affairs (Department for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking). The investigations resulted in the dismissal of a number of high-ranking officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the closure of three drug outlets in Kyiv.

On June 7, part one of the article “Does OBNON spit in the minister’s face?” was published, which became the starting point of the confrontation between Shariy and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Investigation of the “Aloyanov case”

On June 29, 2011, Shariy publishes the first part of the investigation into the murder of the owner of the 4room supermarket, in which he accuses the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, represented by the minister and his deputy Vasily Farinnik, of receiving a bribe of $1,500,000.

On June 29, 2011, Shariy released an operational video of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in which Artur Aloyan, a representative of the well-known Aloyan clan in Ukraine, ordered the murder of a Kyiv businessman. Also in the material, Shariy claimed that Russian citizen Merab Suslov, who was brought to justice for the murder of businessman Shabab Aloyan in 2009, is innocent. Shariy accused the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, represented by the Minister of Internal Affairs Mogilev and his deputy, Major General Vasily Farinnik, of releasing Artur Aloyan as a result of the Ministry of Internal Affairs receiving a bribe in the amount of $1,500,000.

On September 21, 2011, Shariy published the material “The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and the Yazidis. Millions in blood. Part 1”, in which he again accused the top of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the fact that Merab Suslov, accused of murdering the owner of “4room”, was in detention illegally. On the same day, case No. 09-22896 about the attempt on Shariy’s life is closed, and a criminal case is initiated against the journalist himself under Article 383 Part 2 of the Criminal Code (for “staging an attempt”).

Assassination attempt

On July 12, 2011, at 3:30 a.m., a few hours after the incident in the underground casino, when Shariy and the film crew of the 1+1 channel were locked in the premises by escaped workers, a shot was fired at Shariy’s car on Radchenko Street. As a result, the windshield and rear window of the car were shot through, the interior lining of the car was damaged by shotgun pellets, but the journalist was not injured. Employees of the Solomensky District Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kyiv, journalists from the 1+1 channel, representatives of the prosecutor’s office and the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrived at the scene of the incident. An operational investigation team with a dog handler arrived at the scene and spent several hours unsuccessfully searching for traces of the criminals and weapons. Journalists from the 1+1 channel were on site and filmed the search for weapons. As soon as the journalists and Shariy went to the police department, the police found a sawn-off shotgun. Shariy refused to write a statement and admit that he was a victim. On the same day, an investigator from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kyiv took away the keys to a car from the journalist, which was blocked in the parking lot of the Solomensky District Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kyiv. Criminal case No. 09-22896 was opened into the assassination attempt on the journalist. The head of the press service of the Kyiv police, Vladimir Polishchuk, put forward a version according to which Shariy “only wanted to scare him,” since the shooting began when he had already jumped out of the car.

On July 14, 2011, the assassination case was taken under the personal control of the President of Ukraine Yanukovych, Deputy Prosecutor General Kuzmin and Minister of Internal Affairs Mogilev. Shariy's interrogations lasted 6-10 hours; on July 15, fingerprints and DNA samples were taken from him.

On July 19, a search was conducted in the apartment of Shariy’s mother and his wife’s apartment. Investigators are seizing memory cards and SIM cards of mobile phones. The front door was surrounded by police, who did not allow either lawyers or Shariy’s colleagues from the 1+1 channel to enter the search site.

Two days later, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent out another release to the media, in which it said that on December 20, Shariy’s case was transferred to court.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs version of the staging

On October 5, 2011, the Public Relations Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the city of Kyiv sent out a press release to the media entitled “The attempted murder turned out to be a staged act.” The release alleged that Shariy staged the assassination attempt. On October 6, Shariy was supposed to attend a round table on freedom of speech, with the participation of President Yanukovych. However, Shariy's invitation was canceled. The Ministry of Internal Affairs claimed that his fingerprint was found on the cartridge that remained in the barrel of the gun from which the shot was fired at Shariy’s car. At the same time, he cannot provide this evidence, since after the imprint was transferred to tape for sending to the Research Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the imprint on the cartridge was destroyed. On October 27, Shariy published an open letter to the Minister of Internal Affairs Mogilev, in which he directly accused him of pressure.

Criminal prosecution

In Ukraine, two criminal cases have been initiated against Anatoly Shariy:

On June 29, 2011, Shariy was handed a resolution to initiate a criminal case against him under Article 296 (hooliganism) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - for the shooting on May 1 at a McDonald's fast food, when Anatoly Shariy twice shot rubber bullets at an unknown person who allegedly attacked his wife.

In October 2011, under Part 2 of Article 383 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (knowingly false report of a crime with the artificial creation of evidence of the accusation) due to the shelling of Shariy’s car on July 13 (the journalist was accused of staging an attempt on himself).

As of late 2013, both cases were at the trial stage. In the annual report of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch for 2011, the attack on Shariy was mentioned as one of the confirmations of the worsening situation for journalists in Ukraine.

Detentions by Yushchenko's guards

On January 12, 2011, Observer journalists Anatoly Shariy and Alexander Chalenko were detained by the security of ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.

Titles, ranks, regalia

He has the Cross of Distinction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the nature of which, like many other details of Shariy’s life, is unknown...

Shariy Anatoly is a Ukrainian journalist and video blogger. He became widely known thanks to many scandalous articles and investigations. Currently lives in the European Union.

Anatoly Shariy: biography

Born in Kyiv on August 20, 1978. After school, he studied at KVTIU at the faculty of regimental intelligence. Somewhere in the early 2000s I suffered from gambling addiction. According to Anatoly himself, he played literally until his last money. It happened that he pawned property to visit a casino. Anatoly does not like to cover this part of his biography, so there are few details.

In 2005, he began his journalistic activities. Works in several Ukraine and Russia. His first fame came from the article “Why does a child sleep.” In it, Shariy Anatoly described in detail the exploitation of minors by the so-called “professional beggars.” After that, he wrote articles for several well-known online publications. His specialty was investigations. At one time he supported Yushchenko and took part in public events.

Article about pedophilia

His article “Public Children's Home” caused a real resonance. In it, Anatoly described the activities of the Zhemchuzhina orphanage, which allegedly became a den for pedophiles. These conclusions were based on the fact that there were twice as many servants for 30 children, and the establishment itself was carefully guarded. At night, expensive cars arrived at the “Pearl”, and by morning they left. Such a devastating article, which affected not only the employees of the establishment itself, but also a number of high-ranking officials, caused a real scandal. The Security Service of Ukraine conducted investigations, which were accompanied by the disappearance of evidence and the mysterious death of those involved in the case.

In 2011, Shariy Anatoly shot a man several times with a traumatic pistol. According to the journalist, he did this due to aggression from a stranger. This incident became the reason for the criminal prosecution of Shariy.

That same year, the journalist was actively involved in investigating corruption in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He pays special attention to the problems of drug trafficking and its patronage by the police. Also, many central Ukrainian channels showed a story about the closure of an underground casino by journalists, among whom was Shariy Anatoly. From this moment the real persecution begins. The criminal case regarding the shooting at McDonald's is being reinstated. Anatoly's mobile phone receives threatening calls. On July 12, people shoot at his car. The Ministry of Internal Affairs claims that it was staged and cites a number of very dubious evidence. The case is gaining resonance; not only the capital’s security forces are involved, but also the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.

Flight to the European Union

Constant pressure and fears for his life forced the journalist to leave for the European Union. Presumably, using someone else's documents, he was able to move to Russia, and from there to Latvia, where he asked for political refugee status, which EU representatives approved. Since then, Anatoly has been permanently residing in Europe.

Shariya's video blog

Journalist Anatoly Shariy became widely known for his coverage of the events of Euromaidan and the subsequent war in Donbass. He records his comments in video blog format, posting 10-15 minute videos on his YouTube channel. In them, he reveals the lies of the media about events in Ukraine. In particular, he examined in detail several so-called “fakes” of the channel “1+1”, “Channel 5” and others. After this, his channel was blocked several times. Ukrainian officials threatened him with criminal prosecution in connection with his activities. His page on the social network Facebook regularly occupies high positions in the ranking of the most visited pages in Ukraine. The YouTube channel has received several million views. Shariy Anatoly is one of the very famous media personalities. He was invited several times to broadcast live (by telephone) on Ukrainian and Russian programs.

Anatoly Anatolyevich Shariy is a Ukrainian video blogger and journalist who became famous at the turn of 2013 and 2014 thanks to his exposure of “fake” news and scandalous investigations.

In the three years since the creation of Shariya’s channel, more than a million people have subscribed to it, and his name has become a symbol of honest and unbiased journalism. Anatoly’s followers know that the blogger uses his own funds to help Donbass pensioners, abandoned to their fate by the current Ukrainian government.

Childhood and adolescence

The future journalist was born and raised in an intelligent Kyiv family. His mother worked as an engineer at the Kievpribor plant, his father was a representative of the creative profession. Anatoly’s great-grandfather, Alexander Klementievich Gorsky, was a hereditary nobleman; after the 1917 revolution, he remained in Russia and supervised the construction of large projects.


Little Tolik learned to read early and by the age of seven he managed to study the entire parental library, including Remarque and The Master and Margarita. At school he was an excellent student, won competitions, and was awarded certificates of honor more than once. As a teenager, he became interested in photography and began writing poetry. When the boy turned twelve, his father left the family. His mother could barely make ends meet, so Tolik had to give up his dream of becoming a historian.


After school, he entered the Kiev Tank School at the department of regimental intelligence, but never became a professional military man. He suddenly became addicted to gambling, but, gathering his will into a fist and listening to the entreaties of his beloved girl, Anatoly managed to overcome this destructive addiction. As a player, he encountered the ins and outs of this dirty business from the inside, which greatly helped him in further investigations.


Journalist career

Anatoly Shariy came to journalism in 2005. Starting with small articles on psychology for the magazines “Natalie” and “The Only One,” he soon moved on to pressing social issues. His journalistic investigations revealed such pressing problems as drug trafficking, the illegal gambling business, the existence of children's brothels, the theft of children and their use for begging.

Another high-profile article is “Public orphanage.” The journalist exposed the employees of the Zhemchuzhina orphanage, who offered a certain category of citizens (who certainly came to the Zhemchuzhina in expensive foreign cars) to satisfy their perverted sexual desires with the help of the orphanage wards.

Very soon, Shariy became the head of the investigations department in the large Ukrainian publication Obozrevatel and became so developed in his journalistic activities that he became dangerous for many dishonest officials and police officers.


They began to “cut off his oxygen,” and soon they organized real persecution. Two criminal cases were fabricated against Anatoly, which led to endless interrogations and illegal night searches in the apartment of his wife and sick mother. The journalist's car was taken away, his calls were monitored, and his movements were restricted by a written undertaking not to leave. In search of justice, Shariy appealed to the Presidential Administration, the Prosecutor General's Office, the Minister of Internal Affairs, and the SBU, but all in vain.

In the summer of 2011, an attempt was made on Shariy’s life. Shots were fired at his car, but the journalist was not injured. The Ministry of Internal Affairs came to the conclusion that the attack was staged.

A criminal case was opened against Anatoly under 2 parts of Art. 383 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Shortly before this, another criminal case was opened against Shariy under Art. 296 (“Hooliganism”) – on May 1, 2011, he shot with a traumatic pistol at a man who allegedly attacked his wife. The human rights organization Human Rights Watch called the attack on Anatoly one of the signs of discrimination against journalists in Ukraine.


He was threatened with arrest and a real sentence, so in 2012 Anatoly was forced to leave the territory of Ukraine and seek asylum in the European Union.

But even there he did not sit idly by. As a concerned citizen of his country, Shariy cannot help but be concerned about the consequences of the coup that took place in Ukraine. After the tragic events in Odessa on May 2, 2014, Anatoly began to run his own YouTube channel, covering various high-profile events taking place in Ukraine and exposing the “fake news” of the corrupt media.


Personal life of Anatoly Shariy

Shariy's first wife was the young translator Olga Rabulets. It was she who helped him get out of the whirlpool of gambling addiction and insisted that he take up journalism. Olga gave birth to his daughter, but in 2012, due to Anatoly’s departure, the couple broke up.

A major scandal erupted in the Ukrainian information space. On Channel 5, which belongs to the president of the country, the presenters published personal data and compromising information about opposition blogger Anatoly Shariy, who moved to Europe a long time ago. Later it turned out that Shariy himself played a prank on the journalists by slipping them a fake. As a result, the Minister of Information of Ukraine resigned. understood the details of what happened.

The investigation is underway

Anatoly Shariy is a well-known blogger who ridicules and criticizes the Ukrainian media for inciting hatred, spreading fake news and incompetence. on his YouTube channel More than a million people have signed up. Each video collects several hundred thousand views - many times more than stories on Ukrainian television. The Ukrainian authorities have long been trying to do something against the journalist. From time to time, dubious incriminating evidence is published in the media; the blogger’s channel was blocked due to numerous complaints. However, the more stereotyped the Ukrainian information space becomes, the more popular Shariy gains. The biggest one took on the task of discrediting him, but it didn’t turn out very well either...

Presenter Roman Chaika and his colleague Bogdan Butkevich, invited from the Espresso TV channel, decided to expose the blogger. The latter is known for called for shoot the members of the “Immortal Regiment” and destroy 1.5 million residents of Donbass. Journalists paid attention to Shariy broadcast“For Tea.com” May 29. Chaika and Butkevich explained that a certain Facebook user provided them with exclusive information. In particular, there were allegations that Shariy received fees for “Kremlin propaganda.” The presenters showed “secret street filming” and a “receipt” for 16 thousand dollars. In addition, Shariy’s place of residence was “revealed.” They reported that he lived in the Polish city of Gdynia, indicated the exact address and telephone number, and found the building on the map. “Call, call, send letters of happiness, wish him health,” Butkevich urged, although the disclosure of personal data is a violation of the Law “On Information” of Ukraine. The presenters were not embarrassed by this; they demanded that the SBU and even the Foreign Intelligence Service get involved in order to punish the blogger.

In addition, the presenters stated that Shariy works in a certain Gremi-personal office, which is engaged in fake employment of Ukrainians. According to the presenters, some clients of the office are being “thrown away for money.” As evidence, footage was shown of a man resembling Shariy waiting for someone at the entrance to this organization.

Frame: Channel 5 / YouTube

Hello Poroshenko

Chaika and Butkevich did not hide their joy at the loud revelation, but the rosy mood quickly passed. All the information announced turned out to be fake, as stated in my blog told Shariy himself. In particular, he posted the full version of the filming at the supposed office of a Polish company. There he says hello to Poroshenko and calls him a representative of sexual minorities. In addition, Shariy demonstrates how he personally draws up the very “receipt” that was shown on Channel 5. The journalists did not even notice the inconsistencies in the total amount of the “barn book”. Interestingly, all this information was transmitted to Roman Chaika via Facebook by reader Shariy, user. He showed how he had been corresponding with Chaika since December 2016, sending him photographs. He, in turn, didn’t even bother to check them and believed every word of the unknown user. Although Shevchenko’s page contains links to Shariy’s website and other opposition resources.

“Imagine if this happened in France. The president has his own channel, and on its air two offended journalists publish the personal information of a blogger, whose crime is only that he criticizes this very government, the same president, and dared to criticize the channel and, in particular, these two offended . Can you imagine what will happen in France? Because France is a civilized state, but what we are dealing with is an uncivilized state, absolutely limitless, laws don’t work there, nothing works there at all,” Shariy summed up.

Frame: Channel 5 / YouTube

IN next issue In his program, Chaika called himself a victim of a special information operation. He told how he received information about the blogger, and noted that he was still tormented by doubts: “On the one hand, the snake is sharpening - what if it’s Sharia’s man and a scammer. On the other hand, there is suspicion of committing serious criminal offenses.” “In the end, I decided to go public and then hear the answer,” the presenter justified himself.

But the consequences could no longer be stopped. On May 31, the Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine, curator of Channel 5, Yuriy Stets, resigned. He himself stated his health as the reason. “There are no political or other motives,” said department secretary Artem Bidenko. However, the Glavnovosti portal, citing its own sources, reported that the scandal caused a sharp reaction in the administration of Petro Poroshenko and it was because of this that Stets resigned.

“I’m sick of their nonsense”

Anatoly Shariy told Lenta.ru how the special operation against Channel 5 was prepared and what he thinks about Ukrainian journalism in general.

Lenta.ru: Anatoly, was it important for you to check the professionalism of Channel 5 journalists?

Shariy: On the one hand, this is Poroshenko’s personal channel; he himself has spoken about this more than once. On the other hand, this channel constantly spreads fake news. They fell through the cracks a long time ago, I constantly pointed out lies on their broadcasts, but they didn’t even remove it from their website. I'm fed up with their nonsense and insanity, their lack of professionalism. So I decided to show them their level.

Do you connect the dismissal of Yuri Stets with this scandal?

Knowing Poroshenko’s hysteria, I can imagine what kind of scandal he caused in his administration, as Stetsya scolded him. They talk about health problems. I think that after Poroshenko’s hysterics, these problems became such that there was no other way out but resignation.

How do you generally assess the work of Ukrainian journalists?

This cannot be called journalism. This is a lie, propaganda, zombieing of people. Anything but journalism. Any dissenters, any alternative opinion is denied, labeled as a “Kremlin agent”, “agent”. Ukrainian journalism has sunk to the bottom; it simply doesn’t exist. There are some people who treat their business conscientiously, but in general it looks unprofessional and unscrupulous. People earn their money and don’t even think about what they are getting into.

International organizations talk about improving the situation with freedom of speech in Ukraine. For example, in April the Reporters Without Borders ranking was published, where the country rose five places. What is this connected with?

International organizations are as far from Ukraine as the Decembrists are from the people. They notice only what they want to notice and do not see what they do not want to see. In reality, Ukrainian prisons are filled with those who made some incorrect repost on social networks. The media are afraid and do not themselves talk about oppression. A typical situation is when some more or less independent channel begins to sound the alarm, talks about pressure, and after a couple of weeks it already broadcasts exclusively distilled news about the successes of the authorities.

Journalists have been dealt with more than once in Ukraine. The Channel 5 story that caused a scandal contained calls for the SBU to deal with you. Aren't you scared?

I am under the protection of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), I can also contact the intelligence services of European countries. At the end of the day, I can take care of myself. This is not the first time my personal data has appeared in public space, I have received threats, but I see no reason to be afraid. They're just bastards, it's a shame to be afraid of them. Besides, in Europe you still can’t just come to a person and start performing something. Here they will be put in the same cell with the Arabs for life, everyone understands this.