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[Rusvesna] President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko invited representatives of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) law enforcement agencies to Minsk to ask questions of the detained blogger Roman Protasevich.
“If they have any questions, you are welcome to us, ask questions. Because they killed people there, in the Donbass, ”he said during the meeting.
“And he shouted on the plane: 'I face the death penalty.' And our journalists justified that we do not provide for the death penalty under such an article, but for 15 years.
He knew what he was saying, he understood that there, in the south-east of Ukraine, claims could be brought against him, and this is a completely different situation, ”Lukashenko added.
Protasevich is suspected of participating in the activities of an organization that, in accordance with the legislation of the LPR, is recognized as terrorist, the use in an armed conflict of means and methods prohibited by international treaties, weapons of mass destruction prohibited by international treaties, and the commission of genocide, on the basis of crimes under Part 2 of Art. 244, h. 1, 2 of Art. 439, art. 440 of the Criminal Code of the LPR.
Says Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
It is worth noting that Belarus does not officially recognize the LPR, and moreover, in Belarus, sentences were passed on citizens who fought on the side of the republics, but in this case, the LPR authorities actually receive an official invitation to conduct investigative actions on the territory of Belarus. At the same time, it is as if implicitly implied that under certain circumstances, after the sentencing, Protasevich may also receive a term in Donbass if Belarus recognizes the jurisdiction of the LPR authorities to prosecute Protasevich for committing war crimes.
On the other hand, it can be a clever move to make Protasevich compliant - you won't cooperate with the investigation, here people from the LPR are waiting for you. They have even more interesting questions for you. Other Russian language reports say Protasevich is cooperating.
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[Korrespondent] A new branch of the armed forces will be created in Ukraine - cyber troops. Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, said this on Tuesday, June 1, during a working visit to the Republic of Lithuania, according to the NSDC's Facebook page.
Danilov noted that the challenges and threats in cyberspace today are much more dangerous than nuclear weapons, and the exchange of experience on this issue is extremely important. According to him, activation of cooperation in the framework of the cyber center in Kaunas is relevant in this direction.
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine stressed the importance of strengthening practical cooperation in the field of cybersecurity. He noted that Ukraine will "maximally support the idea of creating a cyber-NATO, which can become one of the most powerful alliances, given the level of penetration of information technologies into all spheres of the state's life and the shift of confrontation from the conventional to the cybernetic field."
For his part, Kuleshus supported Danilov's proposal to strengthen cooperation in the field of cybersecurity between the two countries and assured that Lithuania supports Ukraine on the way to integration into NATO and the EU.
We will remind that earlier hackers posted a fake order on the websites of the authorities of the Kiev region. Cybercriminals published an order of the alleged head of the Regional State Administration, in which they demanded to provide lists of young men 15 years old and older.
The SBU also announced that it had prevented a hacker attack on the state bodies of Ukraine . A hacker from Zaporozhye received an offer of confidential cooperation from a Russian citizen. He agreed to conduct subversive activities against Ukraine for money.
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