Sakhashchyk on the arrest of Zarya and a group of officers: "It was very strange for me that he ended up in Belarus"
Former commander of the Brest paratroopers and former representative of the United Transitional Cabinet for Defense and National Security Valery Sakhashchyk commented to Nasha Niva on the story of Dzmitry Zarya and the arrests of his former colleagues in Belarus. He claims that Zarya was exclusively engaged in the analysis of open sources for him, and received no assignments to search for informants among Belarusian military personnel.
According to Sakhashchyk, Dzmitry Zarya himself approached him with a request for work. At that moment, they could only offer him work on a construction site. After some time, Zarya suffered a minor injury: a piece of scale got into his eye. After that, according to Sakhashchyk, the man could no longer work on the construction site. As a result, "for some time he worked in a small structure that was engaged in the analysis of open source information, and nothing else."
"In fact, all the analytics that Zarya did for me was solely the analysis of open sources of information. And never anything else. Not once did I give him any assignments to contact someone he served with, or to find out something. It simply wasn't needed, and he didn't do it. (...)
In general, no one from our structure in Poland was involved in anything like that," says Sakhashchyk.
"There couldn't have been any moles among us," he believes. "The structure was very small, and I know the fate of every person in this structure very well: who they are and what they are, and we checked these people very thoroughly," Sakhashchyk explains.
According to the former representative of the United Transitional Cabinet for Defense and National Security, he knew about Zarya's contacts with former colleagues. Several times they came to him in Poland. Sakhashchyk assumes that one of them might have been doing this on behalf of the Belarusian special services.
"The fact that he drank alcohol with them and talked about something, that's true. The fact that he might have said something, that's true. But there was nothing else besides that," Valery claims.
According to Sakhashchyk, he has not been in contact with Dzmitry for more than two and a half years and knows nothing about where Zarya was or what he was doing.
"It was also very strange for me that he ended up in Belarus," Sakhashchyk claims.
Sakhashchyk considers the arrests of Zarya's former colleagues at the airbase unrelated to the activities of his structure:
"This whole operation with the arrest of a large number of officers at the airbase is just some kind of provocation, I don't know. It has nothing in common with what we were doing."
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Ці ёсць у атачэнні Ціханоўскай хоць адзін адэкватны чалавек, ведае хто? Пазлівалі людзі як тое ЧКБ, наўпростава выкладвалі інфу КДБ як Алекса, завербаваліся ў агенты як Мельнікава. Апрача гэтага, нічога ў іх больш не было нічога такога.