Protsevych is the founder of NEXTA, and was arrested after Belarusian Air Force forcibly brought down a Ryan Air flight. He served in Azov and fought in Donbas.

Some more impressions of Belarus:

2020 protests in Belarus were mercilessly crushed. For some reason, in the years prior, Lukashenko allowed Western funds to function in the country. I heard Russian security forces had to bail his regime out of trouble afterwards.

Zmahars are Belorussian Svidomites.