A Ukrainian investigative journalist who reported on corruption in the defense department said that unidentified men tried to force their way into his apartment on Sunday.
The journalist, Yuri Nikolov, co-founder of the Nashi Groshi online news platform, which is known for investigating government corruption, said two men were banging on his door and shouting threats at his door. The men left behind papers with words like “traitor,” “draft dodger,” and “provocateur” written on them.
Nikolov has been involved in breaking news stories about government corruption – including one about the Defense Department buying over-priced military jackets and another about it buying eggs and other food supplies at inflated prices.
Nikolov said that he wasn’t home at the time, as he’d been at a friend’s watching a game of snookers (a sport similar to billiards) when the men came to his door.
“These freaks only scared my old mother, who, after her cancer, lives with me."
According to Nikolov, a video was posted on a Telegram channel of the two men’s visit, with the caption that they were soldiers home on rotation and that they’d decided to give Nikolov a “summons.”
As evidenced by the video and Nikolov’s Facebook post, the men left behind no summons – but pieces of paper with expletives and accusations of him being a traitor.
Prior to the two men’s visit, the journalist said that the only pressure he’d received from something he’d written came from former Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov who’d asked Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, to investigate him.
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Third, I forget. Getting that big scoop...that once in a life time historic great news article is more important than a nation winning a war and it's people surviving and thriving.
Fourth, do any of you "journalists" know why the allies were so successful and won WW2? Because the journalists at the time had an IQ larger than their shoe size and understood what was at risk.
Fifth, but please, by all means. Continue to contribute to the downfall of our nation and people under the auspices of "freedom of the press and anti censorship" which is the age old cry of the communist and communist subversive.
Sixth, IF the war is lost...I can return to this comment section and tell the "journalists" at the Kyiv Post how they contributed to our nation having lost and read numerous articles assigning blame to everyone but themselves and read the profanity / insult laced replies to my comment...oh wait...that will not happen because if russia wins there will be no Kyiv Post.
First, anyone who reads what I have typed and is familiar with my comments know I am no fan or supporter of corruption, I feel corruption is treason. Traitors should be decaffeinated. Activity like this is what MAY cost Ukraine the war.
Second, this is aimed specifically at the "Kyiv post" and the communist garbage at this online periodical and their communist garbage colleagues who claim they are "journalists."
It would be great if you could locate your brains and stop writing articles such as this, especially during this war. I should not have to explain why. But I forget "journalists" tend to be void of sufficient intelligence-IQ.
Our nation is in the middle of a war.
The United States has abandoned us.
There are elements in the United States, more specifically the republican party who take great joy seeing our tragedy and love peddling their russian master's lies about us.
The United States Congress is controlled by a low IQ monster who refuses to honor the Budapest Memorandum Agreement which is linked to the Non Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and attached to Ukraine’s act of accession to the NPT at the UN.
Amazing that anyone on the lower levels of military service would threaten the home of someone trying to stop criminals in government and the higher military ranks from enriching themselves while endangering soldiers by reducing defense capabilities. Someone higher up was surely behind this. This kind of things provides more ammunition for the Putin-lovers among U.S. Republicans.
How can he be called a traitor when he is exposing money being stolen that should be used to clothe, arm and feed those who stand on the front line defending the scum who are pocketing the stolen money. I find it hard to believe that in time of a full scale war that military people will profit from depriving the fighting soldiers of items that can save their lives. I would hazard a guess and say the "heroes" who came to his home and frightened and old lady recovering from caner and that would be the closest they have come to actual combat.
War time treason should involve the death penalty IMO.