Women in Media NGO has recorded a new case of online intimidation and public threats by an anonymous Telegram channel “Baza 111,” which also shares its messages on X.
In the publication made after appeals to law enforcement agencies, the channel administrators openly threaten the leader of the Women in Media NGO, Liza Kuzmenko, as well as MP Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, explaining their actions by the so-called “regime supporters’ fear” and threatening with “consequences after the change of administration.”
Photo from the publication at x.com/baza111ua
According to the message, all employees of the Women in Media NGO will be added to the “updated version of Base 111,” and channel followers are urged to privately share information about other, supposedly “non-public” employees of the organization.
In addition, the channel’s creators state that all police officers, prosecutors, and judges who, in their words, “persecute innocent citizens” will also be included in this “database” with “further consequences.”
Such phrasing constitutes threats, intimidation, and incitement to collect personal data. It also creates risks for the safety of people whose names or organizational affiliations are mentioned in the publications.
Reports Filed with Law Enforcement Agencies
MP Yaroslav Yuchyshyn went to the police after the publication made on October 2, 2025, in the “Baza 111” Telegram channel, with a PDF file titled “Base_111_List of Zelenskyy Regime Propagandists.” The document contains the names of public figures, journalists, and activists characterized in an offensive, discrediting way by the channel authors, who urge the readers to share the file and add new data.
Women in Media NGO, represented by its leader Liza Kuzmenko, filed a report with the Cyberpolice Department of the National Police of Ukraine requesting an immediate response in connection with the systemic activities of the “Baza 111” Telegram channel. Her statement indicates that the channel disseminates personal data of journalists, accusations with hallmarks of defamation, gender-based violence, disinformation, and doxing.
On November 18, 2025, the reports were entered into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, and cyberpolice officers reviewed the “Baza 111” Telegram channel. During this review, they found that the channel had been created on September 30, 2025, and its publications have systematic calls to share information about media workers, newsrooms, NGOs, and other individuals whom channel authors consider part of the so-called “regime.”
Signs of Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
According to Women in Media NGO, as part of the general discrediting narrative, the channel uses gender-based forms of online violence specifically against women in the media and public sector.
The publications and other texts on the channel bear the hallmarks of technology-facilitated gender-based online violence (TFGBV). This includes:
- online intimidation and threats, such as “will be added to Base 111 with all the further consequences after the fall of the regime (change of administration)”;
- gender-based discrediting, such as “grant feeders” and “regime accomplice”;
- collective persecution through calls to the audience to share information, particularly, saying that “all employees of Women in Media NGO will be added to the updated version of Base 111. If you know of other non-public employees, please send us all the information privately”;
- doxing — sharing of personal data without consent;
- creation of a “chilling effect” for freedom of speech and professional activities of media workers.
In the publications of the anonymous Telegram channel, there is a difference in approaches to mentioning different individuals. For instance, an MP, a public political figure, appears within the political narrative without the use of gendered vocabulary, without urges to collect information about his colleagues, and without allegations of collective responsibility of other men. However, the woman leader of an NGO faces a different approach, with the use of gendered labels, delegitimization of her public activities, threats of future repressions, and calls to collect information about other employees of her organization. This approach sends a message of intimidation to all women in the public sector and bears the hallmarks of gender-based online violence, rather than legitimate criticism.
“Online intimidation is not the norm and not an ‘opinion.’ This is a form of violence that must be recorded and stopped. Such publications aim to not only discredit a specific person but also to create a chilling effect for all women in media and in the public sector. This is a classic example of technology-facilitated gender-based violence aimed at self-censorship and removal of voices from the public space,” says Liza Kuzmenko, head of the Women in Media NGO.
Context
The “Baza 111” Telegram channel had previously published tables and lists containing hundreds of names of Ukrainian journalists, media managers, activists, and other public figures. These materials are accompanied by accusations of “propaganda,” “grant-feeding,” “being a foreign agent,” and other clichés typical of disinformation campaigns.
Women in Media NGO systematically records such cases and showcases them on the Attacks Map.
Among other things, the organization published an article on November 11: “Baza 111: How an Anonymous Telegram Channel Leaks Journalists’ Data. Women in Media Investigate.”
The organization calls on platforms, law enforcement agencies, and international partners to respond to such incidents, taking into account the safety risks and the gender-specific nature of online violence. Women in Media NGO will continue to monitor similar incidents and advocate for systemic solutions to combat online violence.
If you have encountered online attacks due to your professional activities, you can report it to Women in Media NGO via email at ngo.womeninmedia@gmail.com.
We also remind you that Women in Media NGO has prepared the guide “Steps for Newsroom to Take in the First 24 Hours Following an Online Attack against a Woman Journalist.”