Igor is a former officer of the Almaz special forces unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a captain at the time of his dismissal. He is credited with participating in the brutal dispersal of protesters at the intersection of Pushkin and Pritytskogo streets (Pushkinskaya metro station) in Minsk in 2020. At that time, a group of armed security forces in full gear left the Almaz base and headed towards Pushkinskaya, simultaneously shooting point-blank at civilians.
According to available information, Igor decided to leave the service after receiving an order to detain Maria Kolesnikova, who was kidnapped on the street in Minsk in September 2020.
Since the beginning of the war, which began in February 2022, Igor defended Ukraine, fought in the "Sakhashchik detachment" as part of the 79th separate airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the battles, he was seriously wounded, after which he underwent rehabilitation and fully recovered.
In June 2023, he was convicted in absentia on politically motivated terrorism charges and a number of criminal charges. He was given a long prison term, the first five years of which were to be in prison. He was also stripped of his military rank.
According to the indictment, from July 2020 to January 2022, an "organized criminal group" allegedly preparing extremist crimes operated in Belarus, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine and other countries. It included radical military personnel, security officials, athletes and businessmen who sought to seize power illegally. This case is related to the attempted arson of the house of MP Oleg Gaidukevich in June 2021 and the "organization of mass riots."
