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The recent surge in DDoS attacks on media outlets in Hungary, Bosnia, Malta, and Ukraine disrupts the free flow of information and obstructs the public's access to independent journalism.
IPI calls on authorities to investigate recent incidents targeting journalists from 'Nashi Hroshi' and 'Bihus.info', two outlets known for exposing corruption in Ukraine.
Investigative journalists in Ukraine came under two attacks in just the past week, one involving a threatening home visit and another using covert surveillance. The two incidents are the latest in a series of discrediting campaigns against independent Ukrainian media, often supported by anonymous pro-government Telegram channels, raising concerns about increasing pressure on press freedom in wartime Ukraine. “These are not ordinary cases when journalists are obstructed by (someone’s) security guards, for example, or not allowed to go somewhere,” Oksana Romaniuk, the head of the Institute of Mass Information, a Ukrainian NGO monitoring violations of freedom of speech, told the Kyiv Independent.