Znak: Kalesnikava had no plans to leave Belarus

Maryia Kalesnikava had no intention to leave Belarus, Coordination Council's Presidium member Maksim Znak said in a statement on Tuesday. "I and Maryia Kalesnikava discussed the situation what happened to Volha Kavalkova who had been forcibly taken to the border with Poland. Maryia was saying that she would by no means agree to leave Belarus if something like this happened to her," Znak told Radio Liberty.

Maryia Kalesnikava went missing on the morning of September 7. Unidentified masked men grabbed her off the street near the National Arts Museum in downtown Minsk and pushed her into a dark van with "telecom" inscription on it and drove away at speed.

Several minutes before the abduction, Kalesnikava came across Euroradio's editor Zmicier Lukashuk in the street and told him she was on her way to a post office to pick a parcel from KGB.

Today in the morning, Belarus' Border Control Committee said that the members of the Coordination Council Maryia Kalesnikava, Anton Radnenkou and Ivan Krautsou crossed the Belarusian border into Ukraine.

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