Protasevich decided to serve Belarus and renounced Azov

The former editor of an extremist telegram channel, Roman Protasevich, who is under investigation in Belarus, announced the end of house arrest and the start of work at the information and educational institution “Center for Systemic Human Rights Protection”.

He stated this during a stream on the YouTube channel InfoSpecNaz BELYAKOV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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The stream turned out to be sluggish and lasted only half an hour. Protasevich refused to comment on almost all questions: about his case, about constitutional reform, about the presidential elections, and even about whether he is a traitor, referring viewers to the “competent authorities.” He stated that he is not afraid to be free, since “the professionalism of the Belarusian special services has been proven more than once,” and he hopes
"to be useful to the country."

When he was asked a question about his stay in the Donbass in the so-called ATO zone, he also initially avoided answering, citing the opinion of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. However, he did not recall the opinion itself.

However, the audience was persistent and continued to ask about Donbass.

“Friends, I can say directly: I have never even shot at anyone, I have never killed anyone. I never even pointed a gun at people because my weapon was a camera, not any machine guns or anything like that,” Protasevich said.

He also spoke on the situation in Ukraine.

“Ukraine has a very intense political life, and some ups and downs and events are constantly happening. You can wage information wars with Russia as much as you like, organize some kind of infighting for power, seats in parliament, but it is important to understand that from such political squabbles, ordinary residents of Ukraine suffer the most, for whom these political vicissitudes only harm them.

Suffice it to recall a very topical issue for Ukrainians related to the cost of communal services, which in recent years has grown to cosmic proportions. Political squabbles do not benefit ordinary Ukrainians who want to live in peace and prosperity,” Protasevich said.

In June last year, after Protasevich found himself on a plane that landed in Minsk due to a false mining attack and was detained, the LPR prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against him for participating in the activities of an organization that, in accordance with the legislation of the Lugansk People's Republic, is recognized as terrorist (" Azov"), the use in armed conflict of means and methods prohibited by international treaties, weapons of mass destruction prohibited by international treaties, and the commission of genocide.

“Ex-combatant of the neo-Nazi battalion “Azov”, ex-most wanted terrorist of Belarus and chief editor of Nekhta Roman Protasevich is now a Belarusian systemic human rights activist. A dizzying career,” military correspondent Alexander Kots commented on the news.

“Why be surprised? The last commander of the UPA, Vasil Kuk, after falling asleep, was engaged in scientific work at the Central State Historical Archive and the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. I wrote about Marxism-Leninism and the national question,” LPR militia member and publicist Vladlen Tatarsky wrote in his Telegram channel.
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