2021 Minsk apartment shooting

After a door breaching, a shootout took place, in which Zeltser fatally shot Dmitry Fedosyuk, a KGB agent from the Alpha Group unit.

[4] According to the state-owned Belarusian Telegraph Agency, "members of an extremist group with ties to the opposition, supposedly, lived in the apartment", referring to Zeltser, 31, and his wife, who was arrested.

Andrei Yuryevich Zeltser (Belarusian: Андрэй Юр'евіч Зельцэр, Russian: Андрей Зельцер; born 1989) was an opposition supporter and has been described as a dissident.

[5][7][8][a] According to a media report, on 16 August 2021 he posted an image of the white-red-white historical flag of Belarus (which has been used as a symbol of the opposition to the regime of Alexander Lukashenko) and "made a call to the people to unite and fight for the future of the country".

[14] Dmitry Yuryevich Fedosyuk (Belarusian: Дзмітрый Юр’евіч Федасюк, Russian: Дмитрий Федосюк; born June 5, 1990), was the KGB agent killed in the shoot-out.

[28] He was jailed for having written a news piece that featured a former classmate of Zeltser describing him in positive terms; the article was published on September 28, 2021, and was deleted the next morning.

[36]Lukashenko held a minute's silence to honor the agent who was killed, and said that the government would "not forgive them [opposition supporters] for the death of this guy.

"[2] Prominent opposition activist Pavel Latushko said that "a fair investigation (of the incident) is impossible under Lukashenko", and: "Not only Andrei Zeltser — a calm, kind and compassionate man — has been declared a terrorist.