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Deutsche Welle: Ukraine boosts security for Belarus dissidents after Kyiv death

By Deutsche Welle.

Published Aug. 4, 2021 at 8:53 pm

Woman fires candles near a portrait of Vitaly Shishov at the rally next to the Belarusian Embassy in Ukraine to commemorate Vitaly Shishov, a Belarusian activist living in exile who was found hanged in a park near his home this morning, in Kyiv on August 3, 2021.

Ukrainian security services were ordered to protect Belarus dissidents after a Belarusian NGO founder was found dead in a Kyiv park on Aug. 2.

“Every Belarusian who can become the target of criminals because of their public political position must obtain special and reliable protection,” Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday.