All persecuted

Tatyana Frantskevich and Natalya Lobatsevich were detained on July 19, 2024, when Tatyana was summoned to the Investigative Committee to sign a pledge not to leave the city of Polotsk, and Natalya went with her to support her.

A criminal case was opened against Tatyana Frantskevich, the mother of convicted anarchist Alexander Frantskevich, and her sister Natalia Lobatsevich, the mother of former political prisoner Ilya Lobatsevich, and they were placed in a pretrial detention facility in Vitebsk.

29-year-old native of the Mogilev region. Victoria studied at Nesvizh Pedagogical College. For the last ten years I have worked in communication shops, at a gas station, and in a store.

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. Victoria Volchek confirmed during interrogation that she received the parcel - Valery Vodin asked her to receive the parcel. 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.

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 parcel - Valery Vodin asked her to receive the parcel. 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.

On May 15, 2023, ONT aired a propaganda film, "A Killer Parcel of Death: Who and How Wanted to Commit a Terrorist Attack on Victory Day," which told the details of the case. It was reported that the KGB allegedly "prevented a terrorist attack under the supervision of Kiev" on the eve of Victory Day on May 9, 2023. They said that the explosives were in electric stoves that were sent to the detainees via parcels. The organizer of the action was named as 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 Kiev via Italy. 29-year-old Viktoria Volchek confirmed during interrogation that she had received the parcel — Valery Vodin had asked her to receive the parcel. BSU student Anna Savochkina and her mother Tatyana Rusak took the stove from Volchek and buried it in a cemetery in Kolodishchi. The second stove was taken by dental technician Andrei Grigoriev and taken to the gardening association "Avtoremontnik 124" near Olekhnovichi.

Anna Savochkina completed three courses of the Faculty of Economics at BSU, but since September 2022 she has been enrolled in the first year of the Faculty of Biology at BSU, group leader. Before the institute, she graduated from the I.O. Akhremchik Gymnasium-College of Arts, majoring in music. Detained along with her mother.

Lyudmila Deineko is 40 years old. In 2005, she graduated from Polotsk State University with a degree in jurisprudence. First she worked in the internal affairs department of the Minsk regional executive committee, then in the justice department of the Minsk city executive committee, and as a consultant in the court of the Zavodsky district of Minsk.

The trial begins on July 22. Deineko is accused of “calling for sanctions,” “insulting Lukashenko,” and “inciting hostility or discord.”

Lyudmila has two minor children.

38-year-old illustrator. She quit her job at PL in a large IT company. Her colleagues were shocked and tried to talk her out of it — she decided to go home. She said she already had a certificate from the KGB about the donation paid in multiples for 2020. She was tired of being homeless. She was detained at the border.
According to the prosecution's version of events, which was voiced by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office, in 2021-2022, Natalia Levaya transferred cash and cryptocurrency in the total amount of at least four thousand and four hundred rubles (today this is about 1,275 euros) to bank accounts and virtual wallets "used by representatives of extremist groups, including armed ones, for example, the Kalinovsky Regiment". In addition, she was fined 1,000 basic units - almost the same amount that Natalia donated to initiatives and funds. This is the punishment requested by the state prosecution at the trial. The trial was held behind closed doors.

Marina Alekseenko is 40 years old. She is from Minsk, graduated from the Minsk State Linguistic University in 2008. After that, she worked as a translator, but in 2012 she got a job at the elite five-star Minsk hotel Crowne Plaza. In two years, she went from assistant sales manager to head of sales and marketing.

Detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.

worked as the chief bibliographer of the research department of book science of the National Library of Belarus until November 2021. Then she went into IT.

Detained as a result of a massive raid by security forces on January 23-24, 2024 on relatives of political prisoners and people who sent parcels and letters to political prisoners.

Irina was tried as a "Person who committed a socially dangerous act." This means that, according to the court's decision, compulsory medical measures were to be applied to her. Her trial took place on September 18 and 23, 2024. Her whereabouts are unknown.

Zhanna Dashkevich is 54 years old. She comes from the village of Svatki, Myadel district, Minsk region. Zhanna graduated from the Bobruisk Medical College in 1987, and at the age of 41 she entered the Belarusian State Pedagogical University to study as a psychologist. It is unknown when Zhanna Dashkevich was detained and why. But she stopped being online in October 2023, although she had previously been active on social networks.

The trial of the woman began on June 3, 2024 in the Minsk Regional Court. Zhanna is being tried under two articles - “recruitment, training or preparation for participation in war, as well as material support for such activities” and “creation of an extremist formation or participation in it.” She faces five to ten years in prison

Lilia was first detained at the end of March 2023 and sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest. However, in April 2024, it became known that she had been detained as part of a criminal case. She was convicted under several articles for "insulting government officials" and "slander and insult against Lukashenko."

The first time she was detained by the KGB at the end of January 2024 (during the mass detentions of relatives and friends of political prisoners) for writing letters and transferring money to the accounts of political prisoners in the pre-trial detention center of prison No. 1. Then a criminal case was opened against her under Art. 361-2 (financing extremist activities), but the woman was not taken into custody.

During the search, equipment and money were confiscated from her. After examining the technique, unwanted comments were allegedly discovered on social networks, and an examination was then carried out on them. After receiving the results of the examination, on April 20, 2024, Victoria was re-detained and placed in a temporary detention facility, and subsequently in a pre-trial detention center.