The KGB of Belarus sent the ex-deputy minister of communications of the country and assistant to the chairman of the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Dmitry Shedko, who may be associated with people involved in the sabotage of the Russian A-50 aircraft in Machulishchi, to a pre-trial detention center, the human rights center Viasna writes.
According to human rights activists, Russian security forces detained Shedko on March 10. The man managed to inform his colleagues that FSB officers had come to see him. Almost immediately he was transferred to Minsk. The reasons for the detention were not reported.
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To cover up Shedko’s detention, the FSB, as noted by human rights activists, made a special information “stuffing” about the alleged disappearance of a man. It was first published by the pro-government telegram channel Baza on March 13. Viasna’s human rights activists claim that at that time Shedko was already in the KGB pre-trial detention center and the FSB officers knew this.
Shedko’s arrest became known on March 14. According to Viasna, he “personally knew some of the people who were detained in connection with the sabotage case in Machulishchi.” On VKontakte, there are photos of Shedko with the heroine of the film of the Belarus-1 TV channel about the sabotage in Machulishchi – Yevgenia Tochitskaya.
As previously reported, on February 26, at the Machulishchi military airfield, 12 kilometers from Minsk, a Russian A-50 early warning military aircraft was damaged as a result of explosions. The head of BYPOL Alexander Azarov told Nasha Niva that the sabotage in Machulishchi was carried out by Belarusians, and Belsat said that it was carried out with the help of drones and that all participants in the operation were already outside Belarus.
Dmitry Shedko is a citizen of Belarus. Recently, he worked in Moscow as an assistant to the chairman of the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), Mikhail Myasnikovich. Previously, he was the First Deputy Minister of Communications and Informatization of Belarus. Shedko resigned in 2019.
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