Dynamo Brest footballer Viktoria Sidorchuk turned away while singing the official anthem of Belarus at the match against Neman in solidarity with the arrested Roman Protasevich.
Sidorchuk was the only member of both teams who did this.. After the game, Victoria posted this moment in her Instagram story - from which it became clear that the football player protested against the hijacking of the Ryanair plane..
On May 23, the founder of the NEXTA Telegram channel Roman Protasevich was detained by Belarusian law enforcement agencies after an emergency landing of the plane of the Irish airline Ryanair, en route from Athens to Vilnius. It was also reported about the detention of his girlfriend, Russian woman Sofia Sapega.