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“Maria Kolesnikova tried to leave the territory of the Republic of Belarus illegally, but was arrested at the border,” Belta said on her channel on the social network Telegram, indicating that two other Belarusian opponents, who were with Maria Kolesnikova – Anton Rodnenkov and Ivan Kravtov – they crossed the Belarusian border with Ukraine and are currently on Ukrainian territory.
“Kolesnikova is currently detained,” said Anton Bicikovski, spokesman for the Belarusian Border Service, referring to the opposition, the last of the trio of women in the presidential campaign against President Alexander Lukashenko, who is still in Belarus. The other two, Svetlana Tihanovskaia and Veronika Tepkalo, were forced to leave the country.
Opposition officials in Belarus previously reported that Maria Kolesnikova was abducted in central Minsk on Monday by several plainclothes men with masks on their faces, who loaded her into a minibus and took her to an unknown destination. . Subsequently, the opposition reported the disappearance of two other members of the Belarusian opposition “Coordination Council”.
Belarusian state television denied the kidnapping of Maria Kolesnikova, claiming she was pulled from a car trying to cross the Belarusian-Ukrainian border in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Earlier, a Belarusian border police officer was summoned by three Belarusian opposition politicians, including main opponent Maria Kolesnikova, at a border crossing with Ukraine.
An Interfax source in Minsk’s opposition entourage said the three were most likely detained by Belarusian special forces on Monday and brought to the border with Ukraine directly from police custody, but that only two crossed the border. with Ukraine, while Maria Kolesnikova was arrested at the border, accused of crossing the border illegally.
“Neither Anton Rodnenkov, nor Ivan Kravtov, nor Maria Kolesnikova had the intention of leaving the country. They were definitely against it. They all arrived at the border with Ukraine after being detained. They were taken there directly from the Preventive Detention Center and, as in the case of Olgai Kovalkova, they were forced to leave the country, ”said the Interfax interlocutor.
He also admitted that the special services could have organized an attempt by Maria Kolesnikova to cross the border illegally. “Most likely there is a staging, a provocation, in which Kolesnikova was arrested,” she added.
According to Interfax, the phones of the three Belarusian opponents are inaccessible. In an attempt to call Rodnenkov, an answering machine answered in Ukrainian. In the case of Maria Kolesnikova, the answering machine of one of the Russian mobile phone operators answers, according to the aforementioned Russian news agency.
The Belarusian State Border Committee said earlier that the three opponents had crossed the border into Ukraine, according to Interfax.
Ukrainian border police officials said Maria Kolesnikova did not cross the border into Ukraine on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
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