[6][7] An anonymous spokesperson for the group told in an interview to MIT Technology Review: "What we want is to stop the violence and repression from the terroristic regime in Belarus and to bring the country back to democratic principles and rule of law.

"[6] The Cyber Partisans originated in September 2020 after the 2020 Belarusian presidential election and subsequent protests against its falsification by Alexander Lukashenko.

The group obtained a large volume of material, includes the archive of almost 2 million minutes of secretly recorded phone conversation audio; lists of alleged police informants; personal information about top government officials; and video footage gathered from police drones and detention centers.

The group also obtained the databases for passports, all registered motor vehicles, recordings from the cameras in the Okrestina prison's isolation cells, and mortality statistics.

[1] Cyber Partisans launched the first attack on the railway's systems in late January 2022, in the days immediately before the invasion slowing the movement of Russian troops before they had crossed the border.

[1] The group used a modified form of ransomware to paralyze the railway system, saying that it would return to computer network to normal if the Belarusian government released 50 political prisoners in need of medical treatment and stopped Russian forces from entering Belarus.

"[14][15][16][17][18][19] In a speech on state TV in July 2021, head of the Belarusian KGB Ivan Tertel blamed "foreign special services" for cyberattacks on government targets.

[22] Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman, a professor at McGill University and an expert on hacktivism and the Anonymous, commented to Bloomberg: "I don't think there are a lot of parallels to this, that they are so sophisticated and are attacking on multiple levels, it's not something I've seen before except in the movies.

"[2] According to associate professor Tetyana Lokot of Dublin City University, who specializes in protest and digital rights issues in Eastern Europe, "If ever Lukashenko ends up facing prosecution in the International Criminal Court, for example, these records are going to be incredibly important.

[5] Andrei Sannikov, a former Belarusian diplomat and a candidate at the 2010 presidential election in Belarus, in an interview to MIT Technology Review said that "They’re making the regime's crimes transparent.