A former OMON fighter who is now fighting as a volunteer in Ukraine. Potekhin is a former military man. He was the one named as the perpetrator of the attack on the OMON base. Both are associated with the "Supra" initiative, which the Lukashenko regime has declared terrorist.
Kulazhenko and Potekhina were charged under eight articles of the Criminal Code.
The property of Kulazhenko and Potehin, worth a total of approximately 240 thousand rubles, has been seized.
Trial outcome 23.12.2024
23 years of imprisonment in colony under enhanced security conditions, 1000 basic values fine (trial in absentia).
46-year-old Alexander is accused of trying to join the Kastus Kalinovsky regiment.
Pro-government telegram channels posted the “repentance video” with Gomel resident Alexander Ainutdinov on July 18. In it, a man says that on February 24, when Russia started the war in Ukraine, he began “reading different telegram channels” and decided to join the Kastus Kalinowski Regiment to defend Ukraine. To do this, Alexander tried to illegally cross the border with Ukraine, but was detained by Belarusian border guards.
On 02/03/2024, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
Trial outcome 16.11.2022:
2 years and 1 month of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Pro-government telegram channels write that the detainee “leaked the data of former colleagues into extremist telegram channels and left offensive comments about top officials of the Republic of Belarus in such channels, registered in the “victory” plan and wanted to go to fight on the side of Ukraine.”
As Sergei himself explained in court, he took the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine to heart and followed the news.
At the same time, from the beginning of April 2022, discord began in his family. Trying to cope with his experiences, he turned to alcohol.
On April 14, amid yet more family problems, Sergei Voytyuk left home for the border with Ukraine. Witnesses in the case (border guards, a taxi driver, etc.) testified that in their presence Sergei said that he was going to join Kalinovsky's battalion.
He was released in the summer of 2024 after serving his full sentence as determined by the court.
A resident of Mogilev. Presumably detained on June 3, 2022. According to pro-government media, he was detained while attempting to illegally cross the border in order to join the Kalinovsky Regiment in Ukraine.
The trial was held in the Gomel Regional Court behind closed doors. According to the investigation , the young man intended to enlist in the separate Belarusian regiment named after Kastus Kalinouski.
06.09.2024 released after serving the full sentence imposed by the court.
26.11.2022
Consideration of the appeal on December 9, 2022.
Trial outcome 21.09.2022
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
According to pro-government channels, he was detained for participating in protests in 2020 and for registering as a volunteer in Ukraine. Programmer. Maxim was initially sentenced to 1.5 years in prison. After that, he independently wrote an appeal, where he described in detail everything that was illegal in his case and in court. After that, his sentence was increased to 2.5 years.
Trial outcome 09.11.2022
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Tikhon was detained in connection with a criminal case related to the events of September 6, 2020, during the "March of Unity" in Minsk, and convicted of "participation in group actions that grossly violate public order."
He was released in March 2022, having fully served his sentence as determined by the court.
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