Gaytandzhieva says wanted dead due to saying the truth: Exclusive
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Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva says the Ukrainian intelligence put her on the list of targets for elimination because she decided to investigate the crimes related to Ukraine.
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Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva talks to Al Mayadeen, July 16, 2023 (Al Mayadeen)
Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva says her name was put on the list of targets for elimination because of the two investigations she conducted regarding crimes committed by Ukraine, she told Al Mayadeen on Sunday.
Gaytandzhieva underlined that her name being put on the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)'s wanted list was due to her publishing of information that was true. She had published information about Bulgaria sending thousands of weapons to Ukraine, some of which were used against civilians in the Donbass.
"I continue to publish investigative reports as part of my work, but there are no new developments to explain the inclusion of my name now," she said. "A group of Bulgarian politicians and experts have had their names included in this Ukrainian list."
Gaytandzhieva affirmed that the primary goal of the Ukrainian website "Myrotvorets", or peacekeeper, is to intimidate people, stating that her only crime was being a journalist who decided to investigate crimes related to Ukraine.
"They want us to cease our work and wage a psychological war against us," she added.
This comes after it was revealed that the SBU added Bulgarian Journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva to the list of targets for elimination on the "Myrotvorets" [peacemaker] website.
The journalist's information was added to the SBU's database on April 15th. Her name, photos, data, place of birth, social profiles, and media publications were all included.
Some of the people on the list were killed and marked with "eliminated" on the website. Earlier last August, one of the journalists on the list, Daria Dugina, was murdered in a bomb blast outside Moscow in her car. In response, Russia accused a Ukrainian security service agent as the perpetrator.
Military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky, whose name is also on the list, was killed in an explosion in a cafe in St. Petersburg. The girl who delivered the bomb said that she was fulfilling a job by Ukrainian officials and was promised that if she completed it successfully, she would be hired by a Ukrainian media outlet.
After Tatarsky's death, the word "eliminated" appeared on the "Peacemaker" website.
The list covers hundreds of journalists, politicians, and public figures from all over the world. Among them are Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic, Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard, NBC News American journalist Keir Simmons, Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters, and hundreds of others.
"Myrotvorets" or "Peacemaker" is a Ukrainian website that gives SBU employees and foreign services access to a database that includes information about individuals that Ukraine considers enemies. The list became known as the black kill list, because people on the list were killed, with a sign indicating their "elimination", posted on the Peacekeeper website after their murder.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called on Ukraine to investigate the site. Peacekeeper continues to operate despite repeated calls from the UN, G7 ambassadors, the EU, and human rights groups to shut it down.
Even though it has no official status, it acts as a supplement to the government's databases of Ukraine's checkpoints. On that note, in 2018, the German Foreign Ministry asked the Ukrainian government to delete the website.
Moreover, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said Saturday the Russian security forces have prevented an assassination attempt planned by the Kiev regime on the editor-in-chief of the RT broadcaster and Rossiya Segodnya media group, as well as a prominent Russian journalist.
The journalists that Kiev tried to assassinate are Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak, respectively.
"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, together with the Investigative Committee and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, prevented the preparation of the assassination of Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the RT channel and the international information agency Rossiya Segodnya, by the Ukrainian special services," the FSB said in a statement.
Citing intelligence obtained by the agency, the FSB said that "The assassination of Ksenia Sobchak was also being prepared."
Members of Paragraph-88, a neo-Nazi group, conducted reconnaissance near Simonyan's and Sobchak's workplaces and residences before they were detained in Moscow and the Ryazan Region on Friday, the FSB said.
