{"id":145827,"date":"2025-07-08T12:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/145827\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"volunteer-fighters-brother-has-not-filed-appeal-against-sentence","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/145827\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer fighter’s brother has not filed appeal against sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July 8, Pozirk.<\/em> <\/strong>Maksim Urbanovi\u010d, the brother of Dzianis Urbanovi\u010d, a Belarusian volunteer from the Kalino\u016dski regiment fighting alongside the Ukrainian Armed Forces, has decided not to appeal his 1.5-year sentence and is waiting to be transferred to a penal colony, a source familiar with the situation told Pozirk<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 27, a court in Minsk considered a violent disorder case against Maksim in one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human rights activists said his persecution was politically motivated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials are expected to send him to a penal colony next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police arrested Maksim Urbanovi\u010d in early April and searched and sealed the apartment, where he lived with his girlfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last spring, Maksim was jailed for 10 days on charges of petty hooliganism. Reports said that he was severely beaten by the Committee for State Security (KGB) agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has not been in contact with his brother Dzianis, a member of the Belarusian Kastu\u015b Kalino\u016dski Regiment (KKR), for at least two years, reports said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dzianis Urbanovi\u010d was a leader of the Ma\u0142ady Front opposition movement that promoted patriotism among Belarusian youths. In August 2022, the law enforcement agencies branded it an extremist group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late 2021, Dzianis fled to Ukraine to join the KKR following his persecution in Belarus over the 2020 postelection protests. He was wounded two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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