In Belarus, a Russian was detained for a white-blue-white sticker with the inscription "RUS" on the car. This is reported by the Belarusian Telegram channels, including the pro-government channel “Kniga GU “Baza”.
According to the "Base", the man was brought to justice for "propaganda of terrorism", he will be deported to Russia. The detainee was also forced to apologize for the sticker. On the published video, the man stated that he lives and works in Pskov, his name and surname were not disclosed. Before it became known about the detention of a Russian, Telegram channels published a photo of a car with a sticker and demanded that the driver be found and held accountable for involvement in the Freedom of Russia Legion.
The white-blue-white flag began to be used in Russia after the start of the war in Ukraine as an anti-war and protest symbol, it is also used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine unit of Russian prisoners of war and volunteers "Legion" Freedom of Russia "". It is not prohibited in Belarus, and there were no official grounds for detaining the Russian, but this is not the first time that the Belarusian security forces have detained people for subsequent transfer to the Russian authorities.
On March 30, Aleksey Moskalev was detained in Belarus under the article on repeated “discrediting” of the army. He escaped from house arrest and tried to leave Russia through Belarus, but there he was detained by the security forces after turning on the phone. After that, the lawyers could not contact him for more than a week. Later, the Russian Foreign Ministry clarified that Moskalev is in a pre-trial detention center in the Belarusian city of Zhodino. The case of repeated “discrediting” of the army against Moskalev was brought up because of several publications in Odnoklassniki, including the crimes of Russian servicemen in Bucha and the murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Yelenovka. The prosecution demanded that he be sentenced to two years in prison. Initially, Moskalev and his daughter Masha were persecuted after the girl drew an anti-war drawing at school during an art lesson. The teacher denounced her to the school administration, they came to the family with a search, the man was taken to the FSB, and Masha was sent to a shelter, from where her mother decided to take her.