Kateryna Mola - attack 11.03.2025

On March 11, 2025, journalist Kateryna Mola from the media outlet “Grunt”, who runs an account on X under the nickname Бісова ковінька, published a post criticizing Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko for inaction. The post was reposted by a user named Volodymyr under the handle @8Y9MGVplXrhhzaq, who added the following caption: “There’s so much I still don’t know. Turns out this ruble wh@re Bісова Kovіnka @bienpensanta is none other than Kateryna Mola, a journ@slut from the ‘Grunt’ outlet. 🤷”

This post was later shared by another user, @BrindenRiwers, who added a further insult directed at Mola: “Show this dckhead the way back to her native Dckville, where she came from — let her remember washing herself in a bowl, you f*cking village girl.”

The comments under these posts contain multiple signs of hate speech, gender-based disinformation, and sexism from X users. Examples include:

• “Fcking hater 😠😠😠 You weren’t in Mykolaiv at the start of the full-scale invasion, when we went months without water 😡😡😡 swamp plague, btch 🤬🤬🤬”

• “Another journ@whore who attacks Klitschko”

• “Strange I didn’t know that. This dumbf*ck wrote articles saying everyone who stayed under occupation were traitors. Now she’s blaming people from Donbas for everything again.”

• “An ugly creature! In every sense.”

• “And she’s just an unattractive woman.”

Similar comments were also found under Kateryna Mola’s original post. The next day, on March 12, Kateryna Mola published another post on her X account, sharing a screenshot of one of the insulting comments from Klitschko’s supporters. The commenter referred to her as a “stupid whore.”