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In the summer of 2020, they demonstrated against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Before having, death in the soul, to recognize their defeat.
Pursued by the regime, threatened with arrest, they fled their country.
And from the end of February, when in kyiv, Kharkiv or Odessa, the Ukrainian national resistance rose against the Russian offensive, these Belarusian activists in exile found a new homeland.
This war in Ukraine is also theirs.
And with their Ukrainian brothers in arms, alongside whom they are training, they share a common mission: to liberate their respective countries from the Russian occupier.
They are more than a hundred, mobilized on the battlefield, or gathered in a discreet building on the outskirts of kyiv, members of the Belarusian battalion Konstantin Kalinowski - named after a Belarusian nationalist writer.
The unit is paid into the Ukrainian army to which it is contractually bound.
Most of their members...
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