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"She was extracted from Poland." Former ABW officer on Anzhalika Melnikava's reappearance

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Anzhalika Melnikava at the Belarusian-Ukrainian Astrozhski Forum in Kyiv, Ukraine, November 16, 2024. Photo: Vladislav Maksimenka / Belsat

She was the third-ranking official in the Belarusian opposition hierarchy when she disappeared a year ago. Now, Anzhalika Melnikava has been found in Minsk. It suggests she was collaborating with the Belarusian security services all this time, retired Major Anna Grabowska-Siwiec, a former counterintelligence officer in the Belarusian Security Service, told the Center of Europe.