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Belarusian Interior Minister Igor Shunevich has spoken of a criminal case concerning around ten citizens of Belarus who took part in hostilities abroad.

“The case is being investigated. Some 10 people are involved,” Shunevich said to journalists in Minsk on Dec. 13.

Asked in what specific countries they fought, he said that mainly in Ukraine “on both sides of the conflict.”