Affiliated media: Belarusian Hajun , OSINT project

Incident date: February 7, 2025

Attack type:

• Shutting down a media outlet / blocking an Internet site/ seizure of an entire print run

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Belarusian Association of Journalists

Location: Belarus, Minsk

Additional information:

The information monitoring project "Belarusian Hajun" has announced that it is ceasing operations. The day before, the project's Telegram chatbot was hacked. On the morning of February 5, an account believed to belong to an officer of the Belarusian Interior Ministry's Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) accessed a private chat for the community’s editors. Following this, messages were extracted from the chat, and arrests began in Belarus targeting individuals who had cooperated with the project. "Belarusian Hajun" is an OSINT monitoring project that tracked military activity by Russian and Belarusian forces. It was created by blogger and photographer Anton Motolko shortly before the start of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine.