Officer of the Committee of State Security (KGB) of Belarus, Senior Lieutenant Dmitry Fedosyuk, killed during the assault of the apartment of a resident of Minsk, posthumously awarded the Order “For Personal Courage”. This is reported on the website of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
Decree signed on December 2. “This high award, the KGB officer is honored for the courage and personal courage, manifested in the performance of official duties,” said in the message.
September 28, the Belarusian security forces stormed the apartment of the programmer Andrei Zeltser. The KGB said that “worked out” the addresses on which the terrorists could be. Zeltser shot Fedosyuk and was killed by retaliatory fire. His widow arrested.
After that, the site of the Edition “Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus” was blocked in the republic because of the article about Zeltser. The author of the material Gennady Mozheiko is arrested on charges of inciting hostility and insult a representative of the authorities.