The image went around the world. Sergei Andreev, the Russian ambassador to Poland, was sprayed with fake blood in Warsaw on May 9 as he went to pay homage to Soviet soldiers who died during World War II. An action led by several Ukrainian activists who denounced the war led by Russia.
Among them, Iryna Zemlyana, a Ukrainian journalist. In a message posted on her Facebook page on Monday May 16, she explains that she was forced to leave Warsaw under escort, a few days after the action against the ambassador. It had become too dangerous for her to stay, according to the Polish police.
Iryna Zemlyana recounts the thousands of threatening messages she received in the first hours after her gesture. “The Russians are ready to kill for their ambassador lightly stained with Polish borscht”, she writes.
“All my personal details including my passport, phone numbers, social media accounts leaked to Russian public sources. Now I am under many attacks. Russians are threatening to find me and kill me .”
Iryna Zemlyanaat Ukrainian radio Gromadske
A massive attack that this activist explains that she has never known in her life. In a few days, all her mailboxes were saturated, on Facebook, Instagram, Russians threatened her with mutilation, rape, death. “I get a call every three minutes”, she says, still flabbergasted. This situation forces him to protect himself. Contacted on social networks, she explains that she no longer wants to speak publicly, and no one knows where she is exactly today.
“I never thought I would have to run away twice”she says before concluding with: “Glory to Ukraine We will win!”