Previously, Yury Makhnach was a PPS company commander in Lida. In August 2020, TUT.BY published his appeal. Yury Makhnach spoke about the beating of people in the Lida District Department of Internal Affairs, paddy wagons, and at a car wash in the department's service garage. Then, on August 18 , he resigned from service in the police .
On August 18, 2020, he resigned and later left Belarus for Poland due to the threat of persecution.
Trial outcome 02.10.2024: 15 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 500 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
unknown years of imprisonment in absentia
On May 15, 2023, ONT released the propaganda film “Killer Package” of Death: Who and How Wanted to Commit a Terrorist Attack on Victory Day,” which told the details of the case. It was reported there that allegedly the KGB, on the eve of Victory Day on May 9, 2023, “prevented a terrorist attack under the supervision of Kiev." They said that the explosives were in electric stoves, which were sent to the detainees via parcels. The organizer of the action was named 23-year-old Belarusian Valery Vodin, who fought in Ukraine.
The video said that parcels with electric stoves containing explosives were delivered to the Minsk SDEK point in Kamennaya Gorka on March 21, 2023 from Kyiv via Italy. 29-year-old Victoria Volchek confirmed during interrogation that she received the package - Valery Vodin asked her to receive the package. BSU student Anna Savochkina and her mother Tatyana Rusak took the tile from Volchek and buried it in the cemetery in Kolodishchi. The second tile was picked up by dental technician Andrei Grigoriev and taken to the gardening partnership "Avtoremontnik 124" near Olekhnovichi.
20 years of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony in absentia
4 years of imprisonment (in absentia)
Rechitsa activist, girlfriend of the deceased head of the "Belarusian House in Ukraine" Vitaly Shishov, who was found hanged in Kyiv in 2021. During the 2020 election campaign, she was a member of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya's initiative group.
Trial outcome 25.07.2024: 7 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions (trial in absentia).
Appeal 11.10.2024: unknown.
Trial outcome 19.08.2024: 2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions (trial in absentia).
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