“Morally, it’s better here. Financially, less so.” Belarusian exiles tell 1843mag about life in Ukraine
n a Sunday morning in late September, a small crowd of mourners gathered in a cemetery in Kyiv to bury Vitaly Shishov, a 26-year-old Belarusian activist who had been living in exile in neighbouring Ukraine. In early August, Shishov went for a run and never came back. He was found hanging from a tree in a park near his home. His friends and supporters suspected foul play and the Ukrainian police opened a murder investigation.
The Ukrainian government welcomed the refugees and helped Belarusian companies relocate. But since Shishov’s death a few weeks ago, Kyiv feels like less of a safe haven. “It turns out they can kill us here too,” said Anna, a woman in her 30s, who left Belarus four months ago. A friend of hers, Lida, said she was so scared after Shishov’s body was found that she didn’t leave her house after dark for four days.
As locals and tourists milled around the square, about 30 Belarusian exiles stood in a row, wrapped their flags tightly around themselves and held up posters of the dead activist. “We need the truth!” they chanted. “Heroes never die!” Shchuchko addressed the group with a megaphone: “We all need to pressure the official organs of Ukraine to ensure that everyone who participated in this killing is brought to justice,” he said.
One of those hanging back was Yura, a portly, middle-aged man in a black cap and sweatshirt, who told me he’d been detained in Minsk after joining the protests last summer. “There was no water, no windows. The youngest among us was 16, the oldest was 74,” he said. Since moving to Kyiv several months ago he has met new arrivals from Minsk every day. “Everyone is leaving our country. Doctors are leaving, intellectuals are leaving, architects are leaving.
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