Vadim was detained on April 27, 2023, but on April 30 he was transferred to house arrest pending trial.
According to the prosecution , Vadim Smolevsky on March 2, 2022, from his personal VKontakte page in the chat “Image of a swastika. Independent Ukraine group VMS-17 "with the aim of causing harm to the authority of state power and the president, who posted an image of Lukashenko and officials of the Russian Federation, humiliating their honor and dignity and being insulting towards A. Lukashenko.
