Police Asked Dashkevich About Belarusians At War In Ukraine

A local police officer was interested in the money, collected by the Young Front for Belarusians, fighting for Ukraine in Donbas.

On March 30 in the evening a senior local police officer visited the place where the leader of the Young Front Zmitser Dashkevich lives, in order to get explanation about the money raised as an aid to Belarusians fighting for Ukraine.

“The local police officer had been probably prescribed such a line of action, as they understand that I won’t go anywhere. And there hadn’t been an order to drag me by force still, probably. So he came to me to ask,” –Zmitser Dashkevich told Radio Svaboda.

Zmitser Dashkevich told the policeman that he was not going to offer any explanations or give evidence.

“He started to ask, how much money had been raised, and how much had been given by me personally, where it happened, or whether any further events are planned. And I said that I was not going to explain anything. In a few minutes he wrote down that I was not going to give any evidence, I saw that he was thumbing through printouts from different websites, and something was highlighted there. I said: you have everything printed out, read it. I thought it was just an isolated incident. But taking into account that information about a search at the place of Eduard Lobau in the framework of the criminal case has been received today, – it is obvious that pro-Russian forces at the Prosecutor’s office, in the Interior Affairs Ministry have become more active. As the police officer told me that the check was carried out on request of the Prosecutor’s office,”– Zmitser Dashkevich said.

A charity marathon Help A Belarusian Soldier was held in Minsk on January 24.

The event was organised on the initiative of Zmitser Dashkevich, co-chairman of the Young Front public association (registered in the Czech Republic) to raise money for an aid to combatants in Donbas fighting for Ukraine.