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State television channel ONT has revealed details about Lithuanian citizen Miroslavas Trotskis, who was detained in Belarus on espionage charges.
According to ONT, the detainee’s real name is Miroslav Trotsky, but he allegedly gave it a “Lithuanian sound because of nationalist views.” As a child, he spent every summer in the Belarusian village of Puśvary with his paternal grandparents, but stopped visiting Belarus after their deaths.
Trotskis worked for Lithuania’s border service and later for the traffic police. He also attempted to run a business but was unsuccessful. In 2020, he married a Belarusian citizen, and the couple had a daughter.
Trotskis was later detained in Lithuania after he found a small-caliber firearm, kept it, and stored it at home. According to him, an investigator friend offered to help secure his release. Afterward, he was allegedly asked to “work for the state” and gather information about Belarus, including on military units, training grounds, and medical personnel. Trotskis chose the codename “Ringo.”
Propagandists claim that Trotskis’ main assignment was “transferring money and information into Belarus for Lithuanian agents.” Restoring his ancestral home was allegedly chosen as the cover story for his trips to Belarus.
Trotskis first traveled to Belarus on assignment in 2024 under the pretext of arranging land ownership documents, the film says. During the trips, he allegedly left money in dead drops and stayed overnight either with his godmother or mother-in-law.
The film claims that the KGB had been monitoring Trotskis from the moment he crossed the border and “controlled everything — down to the expressions on his face.”
“During operational work, the unlawful activities of Lithuanian citizen Miroslavas Trotskis, born in 1990, were reliably established and documented. He collected various kinds of information in the law enforcement, military, and socio-political spheres, and also participated in dead-drop operations to maintain agent communications between representatives of a foreign intelligence service and their agents,” said KGB deputy head of investigations Aliaksandr Tarasevich.
During his last trip, Trotskis suspected he was under surveillance. To buy time, he went to hospital with an ulcer and attempted to contact his handlers through family members.
The film presents the arrest operation as follows: a KGB officer came to Trotskis in hospital and introduced himself as a Lithuanian intelligence officer sent to evacuate him. Trotskis then allegedly told him “everything that could be told.”
Propagandists claim that Trotskis’ wife knew nothing about her husband’s activities. They show footage of the woman from behind but do not reveal her name.
After the detention, the wife and daughter arrived in Belarus.
“Our side did not abandon his wife and daughter to their fate. The child received a Belarusian passport under a fast-track procedure, and the girl was enrolled in kindergarten. This family is receiving all possible support,” the film’s authors say.
It can be assumed that Trotskis was detained before June 2025, as propagandists state that after his arrest Lithuania dismissed military intelligence chief Eligijus Paulavičius. This took place in late June 2025.
Trotskis was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The date of the trial was not disclosed.
The report also claims that an “agent network of Lithuanian intelligence services” had been uncovered.