Together with the current editor-in-chief Yahor Martsinovich and journalist, head of NN publications ‘Nasha Historyja’ and ‘Arche’ Andrej Dyńko, Skurko was detained on July 8, 2021.

According to the police, the NN failed to pay utility bills for 4 years and damaged the company by 3500 thousand Belarusian roubles.

The Belarusian Association of Journalists filed a request to transfer him into civilian hospital because he is an insulin-dependent diabetic who are most vulnerable to Covid.

[8][9] After the BAJ request the MVD stated that Skurko was moved to the prison's medical unit and received proper care.

In prison, he wrote a book of poetry for children that was published in 2022 and translated Korney Chukovsky's Doctor Aybolit into Belarusian language.