Łukašenka can swap prisoners only for career officers – Łatuška

August 8, Pozirk. There have been no open-source reports of European states arresting Belarusian intelligence officers, said Pavieł Łatuška, a Warsaw-based opposition politician.
He was commenting on remarks by Christo Grozev, a Bulgarian investigative journalist, about the West’s possible steps towards the release of Belarusian political prisoners.
“If there were career officers among those arrested, that could really motivate the regime to return them to their homeland,” Łatuška told Pozirk.
In an interview with Deutsche Welle, Grozev said Belarusian agents were arrested across Europe for terrorist activities in favor of Russia.
“We must define an ‘agent,'” Łatuška said. “According to open sources, the agents arrested in a number of European countries and even sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, as for example in Poland, carried out one-time operations in the interests of secret services. They were not intelligence officers and their return to Belarus will unlikely interest the Alaksandar Łukašenka regime. They are unlikely to have important information, so the regime will not seek to exchange them and enable them to come back to Belarus.”
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