Russian mercenaries detained in Belarus: we went to Turkey to sunbathe



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Ivan Noskevich, chairman of the Belarusian investigation committee, said this, announces Belteleradio Kompanija.

“In the year of the polls, they give the most controversial testimony. Less than half of people say the group will fly from Minsk to Istanbul, others point to different places for the final visit, and other countries.
As for those who allegedly flew to Turkey, they also mentioned different purposes for entering the country. Some flew to sunbathe, others to rest, and a third to allegedly protect some objects, and another to inspect St. Sophia’s Cathedral, “he said.

I. Noskevičius calls the flight to Turkey a pre-planned alibi, because the group did not go to the airport, although tickets were purchased. Instead, they all stayed at the IBB Hotel in Minsk, where rooms were reserved in advance.

Upon leaving the hotel, the Russians told the receptionist that they were going to the airport, and in fact they moved to the “Belorusočka” sanatorium, where they were detained.

More details came to light. A special group was created on the social website, where the old man coordinated the actions of the subordinates: agendas, meeting times, and an order was written to burn old tickets in the territory of the sanitarium.

The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has charged nine people detained in Belarus under an article about belonging to a terrorist organization. This was reported on Friday by the Ukrainian media.

“The Office of the Prosecutor General has charged nine Ukrainians from the Wagner Private Military Company under an article in the Ukrainian Penal Code for belonging to a terrorist organization,” wrote the online newspaper Obščestvenna.

It also reports that Ukraine has asked Belarus to temporarily detain employees of the Wagner Private Military Company. For its part, Interfax reports that Ukraine intends to demand the extradition of 28 of the 33 people detained in Belarus.

The BelTA state news agency, citing Belarusian police, said last Wednesday that RF citizens who were employees of the “private military company Wagner” had been detained in the country and had come to the country to destabilize the situation in Belarus during presidential elections.

32 people were detained at the sanatorium near Minsk, another in southern Belarus. In total, more than 200 of these agents may have been sent to the country, according to Belarus law enforcement agencies.

Recent events are the latest unexpected turn in the Belarusian presidential election campaign, during which Lukashenko, 65, who has been in power for almost three decades, has already sent his main rivals behind bars before the vote. from August 9.

According to investigators, those Russian citizens worked alongside famous critics of Lukashenko, 41-year-old video blogger Sergei Tichanovsky, and one of the most famous leaders of the Belarusian opposition, Nikolai Statkevich, 63, who are currently behind bars.

Criminal proceedings were launched in Belarus against “Tikhanyovsky, Statkevich and 33 detained Russian citizens,” Sergei Kabakovich, spokesman of the Commission of Inquiry, told AFP.

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