Massive leak exposes Ukrainian journalists' correspondence with Russian-backed authorities in Donbas

[uawchild]

Source: Ukraine Today

Numerous Ukrainian journalists are said to have been requesting the accreditation in the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk. Nearly 9,000 files of mailing with the so-called secret service of the occupied territories have been published on the Internet. The documents contain the names of the journalists and editions who have been accredited for reporting on the Russia-occupied territories.

According to the information unveiled the journalists asked to be accredited, as well as wrote the explanatory messages and sent the texts of the news plots to be checked by the secret service of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk. Tetyana Yegorova, the so-called minister of state security of the self-proclaimed DNR is said to have coordinated the process.


Read more: http://uatoday.tv/society/massive-leak-exposes-ukrainian-journalists-correspondence-with-russian-backed-authorities-in-donbas-710672.html

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Who in Ukraine wouldn't want Ukrainian journalists to be accredited in the rebel controlled area?

It seems counter-intuitive to try to be sabotaging this.

[forest444]

1. And I'd like to know why OUR journalists never ask why Kiev led MH-17 right into the Donbas war zone

Whenever investigators opened a case in Ancient Rome, they'd always start with the same question: Cui bono - who benefits?

[Igel]

2. Our intuitions might be different.

That happens.

This could be to discredit the journalists because to deal with the DNR or LNR is a legal problem. Or it might be to bolster the claims of the DNR to legitimacy.

Depends on where the leak originated. If hacked, a lot of such hackers (for example, the Target hack) are Russian, but most were located in the SW of Russia (Ukr adjacent) and some might well have been in the LNR/DNR areas (or even further West) or as far south as Ossetia or Daghestan, given the close cooperation between crime syndicates in the region.

Some of the groups don't consider DNR and LNR to be ballsy enough, and want a full-bore assault on Ukraine ("the ukropy", a derogatory way of refering to the current Ukrainians, sort of like saying "chinks" for Chinese). Others like to hurt anything Ukrainian and really don't like a lot of the news stories that surface in Ukraine, preferring that the Russian and DNR news services have a monopoly on what can be reported.

A few percentage of the Ukrainians also prefer war, but in the race to being fascist the Russian-speaking side has most of the Ukrainians beat all to hell.

[uawchild]

3. Seems you are wrong blaming the Russians, fascist Ukrainians probably responsible.

A recent similar leak in Ukraine had THIS repercussion:

"Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Information Policy Tetyana Popova has announced her resignation, citing what she described as attacks on journalists and freedom of speech.

"I am resigning. I don't agree with attacks on journalists and attacks on freedom of speech by political organizations and individual political officials. I can't tolerate the absence of a proper reaction to that kind of attacks," she wrote in a Facebook posting on August 3.

"As a protest, I am leaving the government, but will continue fighting for the Maidan ideas, for freedom and democracy as a citizen and a volunteer. I'll continue fighting for everything our patriots are fighting for at the front line," she said.

In a later interview with RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, Popova linked her resignation to the massive disclosure of journalists' personal data -- including her own -- by a website called Myrotvorets (Peacekeeper) in May.

The website's creators claimed the 4,500 targeted journalists had collaborated with Russia-backed separatists in the east of the country.

The website went down a few days after publishing the disclosure, but was back online a few weeks later."
http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-deputy-minister-popova-resigns-media-freedom/27898439.html

(Radio Free Europe is a state funded US propaganda site, by the way.)


Myrotvore is an interesting Ukrainian website:

Mirotvorets, or Myrotvorets (Ukrainian: Миротворець /mɪrɔ'tvɔrɛt͡sʲ/, lit. "Peacemaker&quot , is a Ukrainian Kiev-based[1] website that purports to reveal personal information of people who are considered "enemies of Ukraine".[2][3] It was launched in December 2014 by Ukrainian politician and activist Georgy Tuka,[4][5] then a head of "Narodny Tyl", who since 29 April 2016 serves in the Ukrainian government as Deputy Minister for the "temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons"[3] and before that, in 2015–2016, was the governor of Luhansk Oblast ("chairman of the Luhansk Regional Military and Civil Administration&quot appointed by president Petro Poroshenko.[6][7][8]

The site reflects the work of NGO ?Myrotvorets center?, led by Roman Zaitsev, former employee of Lugansk Security Service of Ukraine office.[9]

The website is curated by the government law-enforcement and intelligence agency Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)[10] and promoted by Advisor to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashenko[uk].[10][11] In October 2015 he proposed to add a special section titled "Putin's crimes in Syria and Middle East" dedicated for personal data of Russian military personnel of the operation in Syria collected by Inform Napalm,[12] in his own words, in order "to help ISIS take revenge" on them "in accordance with Sharia law".[3][11][13][14][15]

In April 2015 the website published the home addresses of Ukrainian writer Oles Buzina and former Verkhovna Rada parliamentarian Oleg Kalashnikov just days before they were assassinated.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrotvorets

WOW, so a website is curated by the government law-enforcement and intelligence agency Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)[10] and promoted by Advisor to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashenko was leaking people's info who then were ASSASSINATED. Nice. Real Nice.