A large group of released Belarusians has arrived in Warsaw

From Ukraine to Warsaw, more than one hundred Belarusians — women and men — have arrived who were released from Lukashenko’s prisons and forcibly expelled abroad. Among them are Viktar Babaryka, Maria Kalesnikava, Maksim Znak, Alyaksandr Fyaduta, Uladz Labkovich, and Maryna Zolatava. Some of the former prisoners traveled onward to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, including Pavel Seviarynets.

Near the Belarusian Solidarity Center in Warsaw, those who arrived were met by their relatives, friends, comrades, volunteers, journalists, politicians, and diplomats.

Those who personally came to welcome the arrivals to freedom included Deputy Head of the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus Pavel Latushka, Speaker of the Coordination Council Artsiom Brukhan, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs for cooperation with the Belarusian democratic forces Adam Halacinski, Deputy Director of the Eastern Europe Department of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Michal Zawiasa, and the Ambassador of Germany to Poland Miguel Berger.

Pavel Latushka expressed words of support to the former prisoners. He also thanked the United States, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and all countries, organizations, and numerous volunteers who contributed to the release of a large group of political prisoners from Belarus, to organizing their arrival, reception, and accommodation in Ukraine, their subsequent transfer to the EU, as well as providing everything necessary and the required documents.

Assistance to the released prisoners has been organized through the joint efforts of a number of initiatives (the charitable foundation "A Country for Life", BYSOL, the Human Rights Center "Viasna", the initiatives Ineedhelpby and Dissidentby, the association "Da Voli", NAM, "Dapamoga", "Volnyya", the Kalinouski Regiment, the project "I Want to Live", the Pavel Latushka Foundation, the Belarusian Solidarity Center, and many others), coordinated with the Mission of the Democratic Forces in Ukraine, representatives of the Cabinet for Social Policy and National Security, and the Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Significant support has also been and continues to be provided by Lithuania and Poland.

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