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Protasevich was created by Lukashenko and Putin
The power structures of both countries could not help but know that Roman Protasevich had served in the Ukrainian Azov regiment (a terrorist organization banned in Russia).
In an interview with Nasha Niva, the Belarusian fighter with soldier name Kim said that Russia, as the successor of the USSR, was showing aggression and heading straight into the red abyss . He also said that the war in Donbass was a war not only for Ukraine, but also for Belarus. If one does not stop the Russian Putin horde now, then our country (Belarus) may come next, Protasevich said.
First published on Tue 25 May 2021 12.34 EDT
In an interview last November the 26-year-old opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich said he was not planning to spend his life in exile. “I would go back to Belarus immediately if my safety was guaranteed,” he said. “My intention is to return.”
Friends have wryly noted that the thunderous and very public manner of his arrest is in keeping with his outsize career and personality. “Everything he does is loud,” Nicolai Khalezin, who has known him for a decade, said. “The riot police came and arrested me. Roma got a fighter jet.”
Khalezin, the co-artistic director of the Belarus Free Theatre, pointed to Pratasevich’s other achievements. They include working as the main editor for Nexta-Live, the Telegram channel which played a key role last year in organising protests against Belarus’s vengeful president Alexander Lukashenko.
I’m begging the whole world to save him : Mother of Belarus journalist Roman Protasevich makes emotional plea for help getting him released from Minsk jail where he is being held after being seized in Ryanair hijacking
Roman Protasevich, 26, has appeared on state TV - the first time he has been seen since his arrest on Sunday
Dissident journalist said he is cooperating with police, is being treated within the law and has confessed
But father Dzmitry said it seems his son s nose is broken and he is wearing makeup to hide bruising on his face
His mother Natalia has begged the international community to save her son over fears he will be killed
Andrey Sapega and Anna Dudich, parents of Sofia Sapega who was arrested in Minsk on Sunday alongside her boyfriend Roman Protasevich, have spoken of their fears that she will be tortured in jail.