«He had already served 50 days, his girlfriend and brother were detained». Cellmate tells about the radio amateur arrested for treason

Mikita Kraśko. STB screenshot

Michaś met Mikita while serving his days of arrest under a political article at the Detention Center for Offenders (CIP) in Akrescin Street. This was in September 2024:

«I was detained on August 28, and a few days later I found myself in the "political" cell of the CIP. He was already there. At that time, there weren't many people there, maybe 4-5. It was more laid-back — they even had magazines and plastic cups for water. But later, more people started to be distributed to that cell».

Michaś says that at its maximum, there were 23 people in that cell simultaneously during his detention. At that point, of course, the conditions in the cell became harsher.

At that time, Michaś recalls, Mikita had already been in the CIP for about 50 days. This means Mikita was detained sometime in mid-July 2024.

Then other prisoners learned that not only Mikita, but also his girlfriend and younger brother, had been jailed:

«Initially, he didn't say that KGB officers were pressuring him. He spoke about himself in general terms — saying, I'm like everyone else, taken for a repost and they found a white-red-white flag in the garage. But the guys who were in other cells with his younger brother later understood everything. That brother explained that they were being held for amateur radio activities.

There was a day when they took him for investigative actions in the morning and returned him only in the evening; we already thought they had almost tortured him all day. He didn't talk much about it, because he might have been intimidated. He only said that they took him to the garage, and this happened often — perhaps they asked him to show how he worked with the radio there».

Michaś believes that Mikita's girlfriend and brother were jailed as hostages, so that pressure could be put on Mikita himself. The interlocutor recalls that they were detained later than him — probably because he did not agree to tell what they wanted to hear from him.

Michaś says he spent about 10 days with Mikita in the cell:

«He said he was arrested in June and was shaved, but when I saw him, he had a very long beard. We joked — like, did you also go bald while you were sitting here? He regretted not having swum in the Minsk Sea that summer».

Meanwhile, Mikita was given more and more days of arrest. One of these terms ended when Michaś was in the same cell with him. It seemed that Mikita was released, but in the evening he was brought back to the cell — he said he was given another 15 days. Together with previous terms, it turned out that Mikita would spend at least 65 days in Akrescin.

The fact that Kraśko was being given day after day of detention made many of his cellmates worry — that they, too, might be given new terms. The amount of time Mikita had already been behind bars was also striking:

«Imagine, no walks, no showers, and the guy sits like that for 50 days. That's real torture, you could go crazy from that.

We had rumors circulating — supposedly, they are accused of listening to KGB communications and selling them to the SBU. But most likely, this is what they used to intimidate Mikita's younger brother during interrogations».

A report about "spy radio amateurs" was broadcast on STB on January 15, 2026. It claimed that a structure for intercepting secret information operated under the guise of amateur radio communities.

In total, seven people have been detained in the case; they are accused of espionage (Art. 358 of the Criminal Code) and treason (Art. 356 of the Criminal Code).

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