15 years in prison was sentenced to the leader of the opposition in Belarus who escaped to Lithuania a few years ago. In a column she published, she appealed to Western allies: “If you want to defeat Putin in Ukraine, you must first reach his evil little helper in Belarus
Alexander Lukashenko, the tyrannical dictator of Belarus and an ally of the Kremlin tyrant, was having an uncomfortable discussion when he received a phone call from Vladimir Putin. Lukashenko was particularly nervous because he owes his position to the Russian president, the call came after Russian planes on Belarusian soil were destroyed by two drones launched by Ukrainian partisans about two weeks ago.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a Belarusian politician, who was a candidate for the presidency of Belarus in the 2020 elections and fled to Lithuania after the Belarusian dictator Viktor Lukashenko did not accept the election results and persecuted the opposition, said that those partisans left Belarus a long time ago, their actions terribly angered Putin who was furious with Lukashenko in that phone call.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya was given 15 years in prison in absentia, and she is not excited. “I beat him in the 2020 general election, before he stole it back with the help of the secret police and Putin. The Russian president sent propaganda, financial support and eventually tanks in an attempt to support his old Soviet ally – then forced him to pay for the support by aiding the catastrophic 18-month invasion of Ukraine After that” so in an article in the “Guardian” newspaper.
“The vast majority of my people are horrified by what is happening in Ukraine. The attack on the Russian spy plane is not the first example of resistance. Cyber partisans have carried out a series of daring hacks into Belarusian state databases. Resistance fighters have blown up transport networks in an attempt to reduce the supply of Russian weapons to Ukraine. And hundreds of Belarusians have mobilized Fight the Russian aggressor on the territory of Ukraine itself.”
She also wrote: “As long as Lukashenko barks like a Russian dog, the Ukrainian struggle for freedom will be more difficult. There will be no safe Ukraine without a free Belarus. Lukashenko’s invitation to Russian forces to carry out a hybrid occupation of Belarus has placed my country at the center of the crisis in Eastern Europe. But it remains part of the solution . The overthrow of Lukashenko will hasten Ukraine’s victory.”
“Britain and the West need to fully understand this point. We are still picking up false signals from some allied countries who want to believe that Lukashenko is a man they can do business with. Some still like to think of him as an honest broker and an unwilling hostage of Putin, nothing could be further More than the truth.”
According to her: “The West needs to stop falling for its lies and realize that Lukashenko consciously wants Belarus to be a vassal state of Russia. Most Belarusians are clearly European, and want to live in peace in a democracy. They want the Russian soldiers to leave Ukraine and Belarus immediately. They recognize that Lukashenko is a war criminal and hope that in the end of anything will be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court.”