Information from BYPOL
BYPOL, an association of security officers who refused to go against the will of the people, called on people to send in their detention stories and promised to help with whatever information they could.
I wrote to them in the spring of 2021, and in May I got an answer: Pavel Shabunya serves in the Minsk OMON riot police, and his unit has the same names we heard in the police van (avtozak) on the way to Zhodino.
The answer was about the 4th company of the Minsk OMON.
Shabunya was a police officer in the 12th platoon of the 4th operational company, so his fellow officers and commanders fell under suspicion.
| Rank | Full name | Position |
|---|---|---|
| senior lieutenant | Yuri Leonidovich Korolkov | group commander, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| senior lieutenant | Dmitry Stanislavovich Kulnis | group commander, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| major | Denis Mikhailovich Gushcha | commander, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| senior warrant officer | Igor Bronislavovich Bazhok | squad leader, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| warrant officer | Artyom Vitalyevich Dubrovsky | squad leader, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| senior warrant officer | Andrey Eduardovich Svyadysh | squad leader, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| senior warrant officer | Andrey Anatolyevich Khomich | squad leader, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| warrant officer | Kirill Sergeevich Drozd | police officer, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| warrant officer | Ivan Viktorovich Kazak | police officer, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| warrant officer | Pavel Vladimirovich Kizilov | police officer, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| warrant officer | Oleg Andreevich Matsyulevich | police officer, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| sergeant | Dmitry Eduardovich Ogievich | police officer, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| sergeant major | Yevgeny Sergeevich Pokonechny | police officer, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| sergeant | Pavel Anatolyevich Shabunya | police officer, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| sergeant | Nikolai Andreevich Zaikin | police driver, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| warrant officer | Yuri Vladimirovich Zverkov | police driver, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
| senior warrant officer | Sergei Dmitrievich Leshok | police driver, 12th platoon, 4th operational company |
Later I spread this photo around, spamming social media comment sections in the hope of finding information about the suspects. That is how a serving officer of the Sovetsky district police department (RUVD), a former employee of the Prosecutor General's Office and an employee of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry got in touch with me.
