The Austrian journalist has been included on an 'agents of the Kremlin' database and now fears for his life. such lists are considered to be a firing squad (the reporter mentions the murder of Oles Buzina, who was included in the “Mirotvorets” database).
The international scandal due to the inclusion of the well-known Austrian journalist, the 57-year-old Christian Wehrschütz in the list of enemies and
"pro-Russian propagandists" in Ukraine gains steam.
Wehrschütz was recognised in Austria as 2014 journalist of year, he is a long serving special correspondent in the Balkans, and since 2015 he has headed the correspondent's office of the largest Austrian TV channel ORF in Kiev.
The Austrian journalist has illuminated the conflict in Donbass since its beginning - in particular, he spoke a lot about humanitarian topics and also made a series of reports in Crimea, where he, in particular, communicated with Crimean Tatar organisations - both pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian, and visited the Crimean Bridge.
He has also twice interviewed the editor-in-chief of the
"Strana" Internet newspaper
Igor Guzhva, who in October of this year was granted asylum in Austria.
Now Wehrschütz was included in the database of
"agents of the Kremlin" under the name
"Posipaka" (
"henchmen"). This website is similar to the notorious
"Mirotvorets".
"Posipaka" is supported by the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies.
Comment: The story becomes even more bizarre when you consider that some police officers claim there may never have been a drone in operation at all, while another is quoted saying that some of the sightings may have been one of the police department. It's notable that of 115 reports, 92 were confirmed by police and confirmed as coming from credible sources. It's also quite curious that of all those sightings not one person, nor the airports own security, managed to capture any footage of the supposed drone.
Later in the week, Birmingham airport also suffered disruption during one of the busiest times of the year, with the airport issuing a statement that a 'technical fault' led to a brief shut down shutdown of flights.
At least for Gatwick airport, it seems this is only the most recent in a spate of unusual sightings: UFO 'near miss' at Gatwick Airport, London coincides with release of MoD files describing similar incident 18 years ago