‘There were no KGB officers on the plane’: Detained Russian national Sofia Sapega appears in Belarusian state television interview

On the evening of August 10, Belarusian state television aired a brief interview with Russian national Sofia Sapega. The 23-year-old was detained in Minsk alongside Belarusian opposition journalist Roman Protasevich on May 23, shortly after the forced landing of a Ryanair plane. After spending weeks in a detention center run by Belarus's intelligence agency (the KGB), Sapega and Protasevich were transferred to house arrest in late June. They are now awaiting trial on multiple felony charges. In conversation with television host Ksenia Lebedeva, Sapega recounted their circumstances surrounding the arrests. Among other things, she underscored that "there were no KGB officers on the plane." Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/08/11/there-were-no-kgb-officers-on-the-plane