According to the prosecution , on May 17, 2022, Leonid Raichonok transferred $400 for body armor to Belarusian volunteers fighting on the side of Ukraine. He made a second donation in the amount of $150 to the benefit of the “Prague Support Team” (an association of Belarusians in Prague who collect donations and use them to buy uniforms, sometimes for weapons accessories, for Belarusian volunteers fighting on the side of Ukraine). The Brest resident’s actions were qualified as “financing citizens of the Republic of Belarus to participate on the territory of a foreign state in an armed formation of one of the warring parties, in armed conflicts, military operations.”
On December 12, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.
