“On August 12, at approximately 17:00, two citizens of Ukraine, Konstantin Reutsky and Yevgeny Vasilyev, were detained in Minsk,” the ministry said on Twitter.

12 serpnya oryntovno about 17:00 at Minsku trampled two hulks of Ukraine - Kostyantin Rautsky and Evgen Vasil'ev The Embassy of Ukraine in Bilorus is alive when it comes to the establishment of the message and minds of the attention of the Ukrainian people. Detailed information will be provided beforehand.

- MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 (@MFA_Ukraine) August 12, 2020

As noted, the Ukrainian embassy is taking measures to establish the place and conditions of detention of the detainees.

According to Gromadske, the detainees are volunteers of the Vostok SOS charitable organization.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, Yuri Karaev, against the backdrop of protests, said that he instructed the security officials "not to touch the journalists", except for cases where they get "between violators and the forces of law and order."