“I didn't have any bargaining with the investigation, any participation in the events was voluntary,” RIA Novosti quotes Protasevich, who took part in a press conference in Minsk organized by the Belarusian Foreign Ministry on the situation with Ryanair.

Protasevich was detained on May 23 in Minsk.

He was on a Ryanair plane that urgently landed in the capital of Belarus due to reports of an explosion threat.

Subsequently, it became known that the message about the mining was false.

Earlier, the press secretary of the President of Belarus Natalya Eismont said that in the near future a lot of "interesting" will be presented about the work of the NEXTA Telegram channel recognized as extremist in the country.

On June 4, Protasevich said in an interview with ONT that one of the projects of this group of Telegram channels NEXTA was planned to be transferred to Russian topics after the elections and protests in Belarus.