Vietnam extradites Ex-Kalinouski Regiment fighter to Belarus

"Do you plan to actively and publicly campaign for his release or exchange?"

"Yes, we are now developing an action plan. We have his active friends and family. Our main focus is to work with Ukraine. That's already underway. HUR is working to get Vasya on the exchange list.

The second direction is the United States because we have little faith that Europe can do anything. So we will try to cooperate with America.

I will turn to Tsikhanouskaya's office because there is Valer Kavaleuski [Kavaleuski left the cabinet on June 26, 2024, now he is the head of the Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Agency - Euroradio], as well as Frank Viachorka, who know the American direction well.

But it will be more personal. We don't know yet how it will be better. We'll see".
 

"Vasya was absolutely right; the regiment simply fell apart"

"There was a statement from the Prakopyeu-Yahorau Bloc about the refusal to enter Ukraine. Sometime later on, the telegraph channel of the old regiment comes out with a statement that this is not true. What do you think about this? What is happening, and why do some say this and others say that?"

"Vasya had a conflict of interests with the headquarters, and not only Vasya. There was Vanya "Brest" and many of her associates.

I would say that there was a big conflict in the regiment between the people who remained in the headquarters—it was "Kit," "Vanish, "Vadzim Kabanchuk, and Mykola. The only thing they did was distribute humanitarian aid: They gave people socks and tried to take 10% of their salaries. That's what these people did. "

There were people who really fought, who were at the front. Vasya, "Brest," was one of them. And they had conflicts. They did not believe that the regiment's policy would be fruitful. Two years later, we see that Vasya was absolutely right; the regiment simply collapsed.

In the last few days, when he was still at the headquarters in Kyiv, Vasya just slept with a grenade because he feared that the guys at the headquarters would finish him off.

I know all this from Vasya. What gives me confidence in these words is that when I lived in Ukraine (from February 24 to May 2022), in Lviv, I was engaged in providing assistance to Vasya.

For example, his unit is in Mykolaiv, and he says to me, "Zhenya, we need this and that for the next few weeks." It could be shoes, night-vision goggles, or scopes sent to us from the United States. I would find everything and give it to them.

When Vasya was on the front lines, the process would go like this: For example, I would pick up a car at the Polish-Ukrainian border, and we would take it to Kyiv. In Kyiv, the headquarters receives it and promises that all aid, if it is targeted (and in our case, it was), will get to the right place.

But this did not happen—the aid simply disappeared, and the headquarters stopped responding. They deleted all messages and blocked contacts, and that was it.

So I am 100% sure that these people are filthy, that they sold it to Ukrainians. Ukrainians also want to give their fighters something better because we had really cool stuff.

Even when I was in Lithuania, the local diaspora was very eager to help the regiment. The IT guys said, "Let's make a normal website where we can see what you need in real time. You can submit data; we'll raise money for it and look for it somewhere."