Zhanna Anatolievna Khvoynitskaya

Triathlete. At the end of August 2020, Valentina’s contract at the Minsk triathlon club Tristyle was not renewed. As the athlete said, the director of the club, Dmitry Tolkachev, promised her to continue cooperation, but refused it after he saw Zelenkevich’s “protest” post on Instagram with a photo in which she stood with a white-red-white flag on the roadway during one of the peaceful rallies.

In the fall of 2020, Zelenkevich moved to Russia, where she continued to train and also worked as a triathlon and swimming coach. According to Tribuna, some time ago Zelenkevich returned to Belarus, and soon after that she was detained and remained behind bars until trial.

Convicted for participating in protests on August 10-11, 2020 in Minsk.

Convicted for participating in protests.

A tester at EPAM, has two minor children. She was detained on December 16, 2021, as part of a criminal case on group actions that grossly violate public order. Her home was searched. Transferred to a pretrial detention center.

Tatyana, a volunteer, was detained on July 9, 2021, during a "large-scale KGB operation to purge radicals" as part of a criminal case. Despite having a young son at home, she was transferred to a pretrial detention center and charged with "financing the activities of an extremist group."

In May 2022, the measure of restraint was changed to a written undertaking not to leave. Tatyana left Belarus before the trial began.

Tatyana, the administrator of the channel "Drivers 97%", was convicted of "calls for mass riots and blocking roads in connection with dissatisfaction with the government and election fraud." Before the trial, she was under a written undertaking not to leave the country, and the court hearing was held behind closed doors.

Victoria, the administrator of the "Drivers 97%" channel, was detained on November 4, 2020, in Minsk by GUBOPiK officers and convicted of "calling for mass riots and roadblocks due to dissatisfaction with the government and election fraud."

In 2022 and 2023, the court twice increased her sentence, accusing her of "malicious disobedience to the demands of the correctional facility administration." Victoria had repeatedly been subjected to pressure in the penal colony and was deemed a "malicious violator."

In October 2024, in the Rechitsa District Court, Victoria was convicted for the third time under the article "malicious disobedience to the lawful demands of the penal colony administration" and sentenced to another year of imprisonment.

In early 2025, Polina Sharendo-Panasyuk reported that Victoria and Elena Gnauk had been placed in a punishment cell: "After several weeks in solitary confinement, they were transferred to a punishment cell. There's a 99% chance they'll be charged again under Article 411."

Polina also added: "Viktoria Kulsha's kidneys have probably already failed. She went on hunger strikes for months, refusing water and drink. She slit her wrists. They threw her in solitary confinement for this—she slit her wrists in solitary confinement. She went on hunger strikes in the PKT. She refused medical attention."

Victoria was scheduled to be released in April 2025 upon completion of her sentence. However, at the beginning of the month, she was transferred to Gomel Pretrial Detention Center No. 3 as part of a fourth criminal case under the article "malicious disobedience of the legal demands of the prison administration." In June of that year, her sentence was extended by another year.

On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.