It is known that in the summer of 2025, Vadim's sentence was commuted from a life sentence to actual imprisonment. He spent the last five months and 21 days in Penal Colony No. 17.
He was released at the end of 2025.
In the fall of 2026, Vadim claimed that KGB officers, after his release, threatened him with new criminal prosecution and offered to cooperate with the intelligence services. He claimed he was sent to Poland, where he was supposed to live, establish contacts, and pass on information about the people he would interact with to the Belarusian KGB.
