М. Ravreba: Protasevich killed my compatriots

29 мая 2021

On board of the flight Athens-Vilnius there was a traitor and neo-Nazi Roman Protasevich, now detained for incitement of hatred and organization of mass disorders, who knows a lot about his foreign curators. Protasevich did his Western patrons a bad service - now it will be difficult to present the Belarusian blogger as a victim of the regime. The fact is that behind the romantic image of the young "fighter for Belarusian democracy" there is an ordinary participant of the coup d'etat in Ukraine and a militant of the Azov punitive battalion.

Learn more details about Protasevich's participation in the Euro-Maidan and his involvement in the war in Donbass in an exclusive interview with a well-known Ukrainian blogger and journalist Maksim Ravreba.

Host: Without waiting for details, the West immediately accused Belarus of air piracy and harassment of the journalist. Is it possible to call Protasevich a journalist at all?

М. Ravreba: "Protasevich is an information terrorist. This is not journalistic activity, he is not a journalist.  These are typical  information platforms aimed at  civil conflict and even civil war. He is an information terrorist and an enemy of the people of Belarus, not only the people of Belarus, but also the people of Ukraine, because in our country he has already crossed all possible lines to take up arms and kill the citizens of Ukraine. He is an international terrorist. He is not a journalist".

Host: It has become known that Protasevich took part in actions in Donbas, as  fighter of the Azov battalion. How can you comment on this?

М. Ravreba: "He was there with a gun in his hand when the civil war was going on there, he was killing my compatriots. This is a crime, a war crime, so I can't treat him well.
Azov is purely a Nazi battalion, even Americans admit it. Everyone was accepted to Azov, if a Nazi knows how to hold a weapon, has minimal physical training, everyone was taken to this terrorist battalion and given weapons. Protasevich was on EuroMaidan, he took part in the seizure of administrative buildings, in the destruction of monuments and other abuses.
He could no longer stop, he moved on, he took up arms and continued to do what he was doing, becoming an international terrorist."