Potential persecutions

The reasons for Heinrich’s detention are unknown, but it seems that the priest has become yet another religious figure affected by the regime’s repressions against religious communities in Belarus.

Heinrich is about 70 years old, suffered a heart attack and recently had gastric surgery due to cancer; he needs medical supervision and constant medication.

Ukrainian, living in Belarus since 2013. In 2012-2013, Ivan served in the intelligence units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, BelTA claims. The investigation believes that in January of this year Likholat got in touch with the SBU, where he was instructed to blow up the railway tracks. He involved two Grodno residents who had professional mine-explosive skills for the task. Pukhalsky was detained when he took an explosive device from a cache in the Kobrin district and transported it to the Tolochin district. Likholat and Borodich were detained in Grodno.

The investigation believes that in January 2023, Ivan Likholat contacted the SBU, where he was instructed to blow up the railway tracks. He involved two Grodno residents who had professional mine-explosive skills for the task. One of them was Ivan Borodich.

Likholat and Borodich were detained in Grodno.

He didn’t buy a ticket on the trolleybus while he was drunk and cursed the president with obscene words. The controller called the police and Sergei was detained.

Andrey Stepurko is 33 years old. The man graduated from the Radio Engineering College, and then «‎MITSO» International University. He worked as a software engineer in a polyclinic, a computer assembler, a computer operator, a sales consultant. It is known that he is fond of practical shooting, engaged in laser tag and other types of shooting games.

As far as we know, the man was detained in the case of the explosion of the plane in Machulishchi. He allegedly found an apartment for the alleged perpetrator of the sabotage in Machulishchi Nikolai Shvets.

Stepurko's parents and his brother were also detained.

41 year old Anastasia has worked a lot of places, but the last known place of work is the director of the printing house of LLC «‎Electronic Agent».

The film on the ONT TV channel showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 in the house of Nastya and her husband Oleg Sychev in the garden association «Berezovaya Roshcha»‎ in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).

Nastya and her husband were detained by law enforcement officers on March 3 in the same house.

According to human rights activists, both of them are now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.

The detained couple has two juvenile children who are now with their grandmother.

47 year old Oleg was born in Krasnoyarsk, but in 2000 he moved to Belarus and has already received citizenship. 

In the film on the ONT TV channel, they showed how the Ukrainian terrorist Nikolai Shvets was detained on March 4 at Oleg's house in the «Berezovaya Roshcha» garden association in the village of Chertyazh (Borovlyansky Village Council).

Sychev with his wife Nastya Pilko was detained by law enforcement officers on March 3 in the same house.

According to human rights activists, both of them are now in the pre-trial detention center of the State Security Committee.

The detained couple has two juvenile children who are now with their grandmother.

Dmitry Mostovoy is 45 years old. He is a resident of Sinitsa, studied at the Polytechnic College in Minsk, a professional programmer.

He was detained during the protests in October 2020, and he was sentenced to several days of arrest.

Dmitry was detained in early March 2023. In the film «Gaspar did not get in touch» on the ONT TV channel, released on April 05, 2023. It was said in the film that Dmitry offered the telegram chat «Belarusian Gayun» to merge information about the airfield in Machulishchi: he set up an online broadcast from a computer, where all the actions taking place at the airfield for two weeks without a break were shown.

Now the man is in jail on charges of treason to the state and facilitation extremist activities.

A citizen of the Russian Federation.

In the film «Gaspar did not get in touch» on the ONT TV channel, released on April 05, 2023, they say that Andrei photographed objects in Grodno — the military enlistment office of Grodno and the Grodno region, military unit 41780, the Auls oil depot, the Devyatovka oil depot, the Consulate General of the Russian Federation. Also in the film they said that a year ago Kulikov escaped from Russia from conscription into the army.

The Russian oppositionist Daniil Krinari (Kovalevsky) helped him get to Grodno.

In December, Krinari was detained in Grodno and extradited to Russia.

Of the closest relatives, Alexei only has a grandmother.

Andrey and his wife are Ukrainians, both from Chernihiv. The couple moved to Belarus after getting married: the spouse wanted it, her parents lived there.

The family has been living in Vitebsk for 10 years. Andrey worked in the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee as an electrician. He was also detained at work.

In the film «Gaspar did not get in touch», which was released on the ONT TV channel on April 05, 2023, Andrei was accused of agent activity in favor of Ukraine.

As reported in the film, Shmay regularly sent information via the Signal messenger to Ukraine to his younger brother Ruslan, who serves in the Chernihiv operational directorate «North» and is the deputy commander for operational affairs.

Deputy commander of the 310th Artillery Group for ideological work of the 120th Separate Guards Mechanized Brigade of the Guards, Lieutenant Colonel.

According to preliminary information, he is accused of high treason.

The circumstances of the case are unknown.

According to human rights activists, Maxim was detained on February 7, 2023. The reason for the detention is unknown.

Maxim Ageev was a defender in court of several political prisoners, as well as a lawyer for one of the defendants in the «Belgazprombank case».

Former military, topographer. Allegedly detained for participating in protest chats. The film, shot by the pro-government TV channel, claims that Dmitry allegedly shot a video appeal to the military and security forces in 2020, and a year later he contacted the Busly Lyatsyats organization. Also, according to the TV channel, this year Gulin monitored the chats of Brest-97, Gomel-97, Kalinkovichi, Luninets and actively left comments there.

Presumably held in the KGB pre-trial detention center.

Reenactor on the Stalin Line. Shilko's page on the Odnoklassniki social network, recognized as extremist, contains several photographs of the convict participating in productions in the form of a Wehrmacht soldier. Shilko did not publish any information glorifying Nazism.