{"id":529078,"date":"2026-03-27T20:19:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=529078"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:46:19","slug":"two-provocateurs-came-to-meet-mikalai-dziadok-in-krakow-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/two-provocateurs-came-to-meet-mikalai-dziadok-in-krakow-photo","title":{"rendered":"Two Provocateurs Came to Meet Mikalai Dziadok in Krak\u00f3w \u2014 Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Former political prisoner <b>Mikalai Dziadok<\/b> said that two provocateurs came to a meeting with Belarusians in Krak\u00f3w. One of them was a Belarusian from Barysau born in 2003, the other was a Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dziadok, the young men arrived an hour and a half late and then began asking questions about his personal life, while behaving uncertainly.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAt the meeting in Krak\u00f3w, when we were already starting to disperse (the meeting was held in a park), two young men approached us with dissatisfied expressions. Both were breathing heavily and were visibly tense.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>No one among the Belarusians in Krak\u00f3w knew them personally.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>They spoke Russian. They said they wanted to \u2018ask Dziadok questions.\u2019 I understood where this was going, but it was interesting\u2014I wanted to hear their prepared lines. I said, go ahead, I\u2019m listening. As expected, all their questions concerned my personal life. After just a minute earlier discussing the future of the country, the struggle for freedom, and other \u2018high matters,\u2019 such pseudo-questions looked both extremely comical and unpleasant. The guys themselves felt unsure and uncomfortable. It was clear they did not want to be where they were, but they stubbornly continued to talk nonsense. When I gave concise answers to their \u2018questions,\u2019 they went for a second round, repeating what they had already said, only now with profanity. It all looked so forced, so unnatural, so far-fetched\u2014you don\u2019t know whether to laugh or cry,\u201d<\/i> Dziadok wrote on his Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p>Dziadok suggested that the young men may have found a side job on Telegram and were paid to \u201ccreate a stressful situation for the speaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIt was clear they were very poorly prepared\u2014they struggled to understand where they were and who they were even talking to. Arriving late (by an hour and a half!) suggests they were recruited at the last moment. Their age and untidy appearance point to financial difficulties. In short, the very contingent that is hired for graffiti like \u2018Vilnia is ours\u2019 or filming Belarusian rallies in Warsaw,\u201d<\/i> Mikalai wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Dziadok described the situation as more of a curiosity than something unpleasant.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, at a Belarusian Freedom Day rally in Vilnius, three young men filmed participants. The footage was later used by Belarusian state propagandists. It was later \u0432\u044b\u044f\u0441\u043d\u0438\u043b\u043e\u0441\u044c that the young men were Ukrainians who were paid $70 for filming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former political prisoner Mikalai Dziadok said that two provocateurs came to a meeting with Belarusians in Krak\u00f3w. One of them was a Belarusian from Barysau born in 2003, the other was a Ukrainian. According to Dziadok, the young men arrived an hour and a half late and then began asking questions about his personal life, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":529077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c7955f54e39.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Two Provocateurs Came to Meet Mikalai Dziadok in Krak\u00f3w \u2014 Photo"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[143248],"class_list":["post-529078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society","tag-polsha"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}