Belarusian volunteer fighter Vasil Parfyankou wounded in Ukraine


Ex-political prisoner Vasil Parfyankou who went to Ukraine as a volunteer fighter has been wounded in action in Pisky. Now the Belarusian citizen is in hospital in Odessa.

“On September, 13 at about 14:30 Sands we had a fight. We offed three orks [Russian-backed military – Belsat], but several OUN fighters were injured, and our Belarusian Vasil ‘Syabra’ Parfyankou is among them. After a rocket signal, our guys set forth to intercept an enemy sabotage-reconnaissance group, a fight started, and they were sprayed with grenade-launcher fire,” Association of Patriots reports.

Two of the injured, including Parfyankou, were sent for further treatment in Odessa, representatives of voluntary battalion ‘Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists’ said.

Civic activist Vasil Parfyankou was released from prison in December, 2014 . Soon after the release Vasil, his wife and son went to Ukraine. After a two-week training Parfyankou went to the front.

The activist was not going to renounce Belarusian citizenship, but he applied for a residence permit in Ukraine.

Vasil Parfyankou, charged with initiating mass social unrest, became the first convicted for participation in the 2010 December post-election peaceful demonstration. In February, 2011 Frunzensky Disctict Court found him guilty and sentenced to four years in maximum-security penal colony.

On August 11, 2011 the activist was pardoned by President Lukashenka and released from Vorsha prison.

Later he was accused of violation of preventive surveillance rule.

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