Sevgil Musaieva - attack 25.12.2025

On 25 December 2025, a post mentioning Sevgil Musaieva, Editor-in-Chief of Ukrainska Pravda, appeared on the Telegram channel “Notes of a Pasquinader”, run by blogger Volodymyr Boiko. The post, in particular, contains the following lines:

“As is well known, the current Editor-in-Chief of Ukrainska Pravda, Sevgil Musaieva, got this position through the bed of Russian oligarch Konstantin Grigorishin. During President Poroshenko’s tenure, Grigorishin supplied electricity from Russia to occupied Crimea through Ukrainian power grids (people lie that Petro Oleksiiovych received 15% from this) and decided to get to know more closely a representative of the Crimean Tatar people. At the same time, he bought spots in the eligible part of the electoral list of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc in the parliamentary elections for members of the Ukrainska Pravda editorial team: Leshchenko, Naiiem, and Zalishchuk. Since, by a decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine dated 19 January 2025, sanctions were imposed on Grigorishin, I am curious whether they also apply to Musaieva, who allegedly provided the Russian oligarch with certain services of a personal nature. Or do the restrictions apply only to the lawful wife of Konstantin Ivanovych?”

This case is an example of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), combining sexualized defamation, gendered disinformation, hate speech, and a reputational attack aimed at the professional discrediting of a woman media professional through her gender and comments about her private life based on the author’s assumptions. The dissemination of such claims is a classic example of gendered defamation, in which a woman’s professional achievements are devalued by attributing them to sexual dependency or an alleged “exchange of sexual favors for a position.”

Phrases such as “provided services of a personal nature” are demeaning, sexualized, and dehumanizing, targeting the woman specifically as a woman rather than addressing her professional activity. Such statements reproduce sexist stereotypes according to which women in the media allegedly cannot attain influential positions without sexual “patronage.”

Unsubstantiated, manipulative claims presented as facts constitute an example of gendered disinformation aimed at undermining trust in a media professional through her gender and private life.