2014年7月9日，一名身份不明的人打电话威胁要炸毁哈尔科夫的总领事馆，除非 N. 萨夫琴科获释。此人是乌克兰国民，关押在俄罗斯联邦境内，被指控参与谋杀俄罗斯记者。
On 9 July 2014, an unknown man threatened over the telephone to blow up the Consulate General in Kharkiv unless N. Savchenko, a Ukrainian national who had been detained in the territory of the Russian Federation and was accused of involvement in the murder of Russian journalists, was released.