A resident of the village of Zamshena in the Liozna district, Aliaksandr Lazukou, says he traveled to Russia for shift work but was tricked into signing a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry, the Telegram channel “Vitsebsk, Ya Gulyayu” reports.
The 45-year-old Lazukou recorded several videos in which he says he intended to take a shift-work job in the Smolensk region, but a “supervisor” made him sign a contract with the Defense Ministry, which he did not even read.
Lazukou is now asking for the contract to be terminated and for him to be returned to Belarus. He names the people who allegedly forced him to sign the document — Dzmitry Mikhailovsky and Nikolai (Lazukou pronounces the surname indistinctly).
A similar story happened to another Belarusian from Liozna, Yauhen Simanenkau. In February this year, an acquaintance invited him to drink with a group of Armenians from Smolensk. Simanenkau did not return from the meeting and was later found at a military unit in Russia. He signed a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry and in April was captured in Ukraine. In May, Ukraine returned him to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange.
