Belarusian-based correspondent of UA: Ukrainian Radio and former UNIAN correspondent in Minsk, Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Sharoiko, who was detained in Belarus on October 25, has been officially indicted on charges of espionage, according to Belarus' BelaPAN media company.
BelaPAN said it had learnt this from official representative of the Belarusian KGB security service Dmitriy Pobyarzhin.
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Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin later said that recent attempts to detain Ukrainian citizens in Belarus and accuse them of espionage were absolute nonsense.