Colonel Yury Zacharanka (1952 – 1999) was the Belarusian minister of internal affairs and oppositional politician abducted and probably killed in 1999. The ex-minister disappeared in the evening of May 7, 1999. The state did not make serious attempts to search for the politician. Several years later the former MVD official Aleh Ałkajeu fled to Germany and stated that he was witness to Zacharanka and several other abducted opposition leaders being murdered on the orders of top government officials. In December 2019, Deutsche Welle published a documentary film in which Yury Haraŭski, a former member of a special unit of the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs, confirmed that it was his unit which had arrested, taken away and murdered Zacharanka and that they later did the same with Viktar Hančar and Anatol Krasoŭski.