Euroradio: No grounds to add Tarnalitski to Myrotvorets database

The edi­to­r­i­al team at Euro­ra­dio, where jour­nal­ist Taras Tar­nal­it­s­ki works, has issued a state­ment in sup­port of their col­league. “Euro­ra­dio jour­nal­ist Taras Tar­nal­it­s­ki has been added to the Ukrain­ian Myrotvorets data­base. How­ev­er, there are no grounds for this, and we will chal­lenge it and suc­ceed,” the out­let empha­sized.

Jour­nal­ist Taras Tar­nal­it­s­ki at the Points of Con­tact Media Camp. Lithua­nia, August 2026. Pho­to: BAJ

The edi­to­r­i­al team notes that Tar­nal­it­s­ki pub­licly takes a pro-Ukrain­ian posi­tion in the con­text of the war in Ukraine:

“He helped the Ukrain­ian army and refugees flee­ing full-scale hos­til­i­ties in the first days of the war. After Feb­ru­ary 24, 2022, he repeat­ed­ly went on work assign­ments to Kyiv and Lviv.

What is hap­pen­ing has a sim­ple expla­na­tion: through its agents and ‘use­ful idiots,’ the KGB con­tin­ues to attack our out­let.”

In June 2026, the name of Euroradio’s edi­tor-in-chief, Yauhen Kazart­sau, was also found in the same data­base. A pro­file with his per­son­al details then appeared on the por­tal, which records signs of crimes against Ukraine’s nation­al secu­ri­ty.

“On Myrotvorets, the text was writ­ten by my two ‘admir­ers,’ who for sev­er­al months now have been attack­ing me by every pos­si­ble means. They reached out to [Euro­ra­dio’s] donors and post­ed some­thing on Face­book too. By the way, for safe­ty rea­sons, I worked anony­mous­ly all these years, but they out­ed me, because they obvi­ous­ly don’t care about oth­er people’s safe­ty,” Kazart­sau com­ment­ed to BAJ on the sit­u­a­tion at the time.

He imme­di­ate­ly sent an appeal to Myrotvorets in which he explained why he con­sid­ers what was writ­ten to be lies and manip­u­la­tion. In July 2026, Kazartsau’s name was removed from the data­base.

Taras Tar­nal­it­s­ki is a Belaru­sian jour­nal­ist and film crit­ic. He began his pro­fes­sion­al career in 2008. Over the years, he has worked with more than 40 out­lets in Belarus, Ukraine, Rus­sia, and EU coun­tries. Most recent­ly, he has worked as a cor­re­spon­dent for Euro­ra­dio and the por­tal Budz­ma Belarusa­mi. He is a mem­ber of the Belaru­sian Asso­ci­a­tion of Jour­nal­ists and of the Inter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Film Crit­ics (FIPRESCI).