Former Deputy Minister of Communications of Belarus Dmitry Shedko, who was detained in the case of explosions at the airfield in Machulishchi, was charged with terrorism (Article 289 of the Criminal Code), Euroradio reports.
Punishment under the first and second parts of this article provides from 8 to 20 years in prison, the third part – from 10 to 25 years in prison, life imprisonment or the death penalty. The publication does not specify for which part he was charged, but writes that he could face up to 20 years in prison. The details of the case are not yet known.
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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. Shedko resigned in 2019.
He was detained on March 10 of this year by the FSB. Almost immediately, Shedko was transferred to Minsk. According to the human rights center “Viasna”, he “personally knew some of the people who were detained in the case of sabotage 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.
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