Political prisoners

A former soldier of Kalinovsky's regiment. His arrest was announced in a news broadcast on state television, Belarus 1, on May 5, 2025.

According to social media, he graduated from the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy (BSAA), where he studied in the land management department. His specialty is cadastral surveying and land law.

He served in the 38th Separate Motorized Defense Brigade of Belarus, a paratrooper unit in Brest, once commanded by Valery Sakhashchik. A photo on social media shows the brigade's pennant hanging in Grechikha's apartment.

According to the Kalinovsky Regiment's press service, Vasily joined them in May 2022, but left the unit in June of that year at his own request.

According to the video, he was detained somewhere in a swampy area outside the city by several KGB officers armed with machine guns. He was transported by helicopter. During the transfer, he had a black bag over his head, and his hands were clasped in front of him with a plastic zip tie. Kalinovets was flown by helicopter to the airfield.

According to the video, Vasily was born on July 28, 1981. In February 2022, he left for Poland to work, and three months later, he joined the Kalinovsky Regiment. He underwent training in Kyiv. The circumstances of his arrest are unknown.

Organizer of the Urban Myths festival, public figure and street artist.

Oleg Larichev has previously been arrested and prosecuted several times, including for his art activism, including in 2022.

This time, he was detained in connection with a criminal case allegedly related to the detentions of other people allegedly involved in the "extremist group" "Da Zoraў."

Andrey Yankovich is originally from Rechitsa. He graduated from the Sukhoi Gomel State Technical University in 2008. He lives in Gomel. Until recently, he worked at ISsoft, a company that develops digital engineering software.

There is a high probability that the persecution of Andrei Yankovich is connected with the case of the monitoring channel "Belarusian Gayun".

In 2017, Strybulsky was arrested in the high-profile "White Legion case." He was released after 99 days behind bars; the case was closed due to lack of evidence.

The man was also detained in the fall of 2021, when his equipment and “protest symbols” were confiscated.

In 2022, Strybulskag was arrested on March 23, shortly before Freedom Day (March 25). The day after his arrest, he was jailed for 15 days. He later told friends that he had been beaten and effectively tortured with electric shocks during his arrest.

On November 14, 2025, Sergei was arrested again and served two administrative sentences. And on December 12, he was arrested on criminal charges.

Citizen of the Russian Federation

He was declared a member of the "extremist group" "Da Zoraў." The KGB believes he and Semyon Malashenkov are members.

He is known as a musician, a gusli maker, and a member of the group "Stary Olsa." Since 2002, Chumakov has played and sung in the medieval music group "Stary Olsa," using the gusli, flutes, and other ancient instruments. In 2005, he founded the group "Bokal Kola," which performed Belarusian folk dances to the accompaniment of the duda and gusli, but the project was short-lived. Occasionally, the musician performed solo, performing folk dances.

Ales also translated Irish heroic poetry into Belarusian. In the band Ceilidh Ceol, formed in the mid-2000s, he performed ancient Irish songs in Belarusian dedicated to freedom and the memory of ancestors. In 2020, he lent his vocals to the Belarusian dub of the Netflix series The Witcher, performing the well-known song "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" in Belarusian.

Roman is a graduate of Polotsk State University: in 2004, he graduated from the electrical engineering department with honors, after which he studied for a postgraduate degree.

During his school years, he won physics and mathematics olympiads, published scientific papers, and filed four patents. He has diverse interests, from drumming to electronics.

He worked for many years as a network design engineer, and in December 2023, he joined Passat Innovations as a developer . There, he developed chip drivers, intelligent uninterruptible power supplies, and voice communication systems. Basalai's level of expertise reflects his ranking on the CodeWars platform: the Belarusian was in the top 0.168% of users for solving C/C++ problems and ranked 1183rd out of millions of users on the platform.

He has a wife and a minor daughter.

In early December 2025, the KGB designated the "Butelek Warehouse" initiative an "extremist group." Among those named as involved were Sergei Salash and Zmitser Babitsky. Babitsky and Salash had previously participated in election campaigns, ran for parliament, and collected signatures for opposition candidates. In the 2010s, they withdrew from politics and focused solely on business and public activities.

The KGB also stated that Valentin Bakhtinov, Alexandra Vishnevskaya, Anastasia Tereshko, Valeria Belskaya, Yuri Dushin, Olga Strelkovskaya, Kirill Skobeiko, Dmitry Kovalenok, and Sergei Statkevich were involved in the initiative.

A well-known public figure from Borisov.

In early December 2025, the KGB designated the "Butelek Warehouse" initiative an "extremist group." Among those named as involved were Sergei Salash and Zmitser Babitsky. Babitsky and Salash had previously participated in election campaigns, ran for parliament, and collected signatures for opposition candidates. In the 2010s, they withdrew from politics and focused solely on business and public activities.

The KGB also stated that Valentin Bakhtinov, Alexandra Vishnevskaya, Anastasia Tereshko, Valeria Belskaya, Yuri Dushin, Olga Strelkovskaya, Kirill Skobeiko, Dmitry Kovalenok, and Sergei Statkevich were involved in the initiative.