Dmitry is a career military man. He began his service in Internal Troops Unit 5448, then transferred to Maryina Gorka. Late in his career, Zora held an administrative post at the 50th Mixed Air Base in Machulishchi, where he served until his military retirement. In September 2022, Lukashenko issued a decree stripping Zora of his rank. In 2022, Zora emigrated to Poland. He left behind his wife, with whom he attended military school, and three children—the eldest is now 17 years old. In 2022, Zora is believed to have joined the team of Valery Sakhashchik, the former commander of the airborne unit in Brest, who briefly entered politics in alliance with Vadim Prokopyev.
According to Zorya's acquaintances , Lukashenko's security forces accuse him of working for Sakhashchik. The lieutenant colonel is believed to have been involved in information gathering and analytical work for the team. There, he became fascinated with the G-13 cult, writing incoherent texts about "higher-order energy," and then suddenly disappeared in early 2026. He is known to have soon ended up in a KGB pretrial detention center, where he faced torture.
