Belarusian opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky, who was released on June 21, declared his absolute support for Ukraine and its President Vladimir Zelensky.
This was reported by the Belarusian Telegram channel Nasha Niva.
He stressed that he had never been a pro-Russian politician and called for a fight against “Lukashism.”
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Tikhanovsky supports Ukraine
Sergei Tikhanovsky noted the difficult fate of the Ukrainian president and called him a hero.
“I absolutely support Ukraine. President Zelensky has had such a difficult fate. What I have experienced is nothing compared to what he has experienced. He is a hero to me,” the Belarusian oppositionist said.
Tikhanovsky stressed that he had never been a pro-Russian politician, refuting the corresponding accusations.
He had a business with offices in Moscow, Kyiv and a company in Lithuania, but this did not mean political sympathies for Russia.
“Our common enemy is the Putin regime. Until it collapses, there will be no victory in Belarus,” Tikhanovsky said, calling on Belarusians to fight Lukashenko's regime.
Regarding his trip to Russian-occupied Crimea in 2017, the oppositionist explained that he was not a politician then and did not think about political issues, but went there as a pilgrim.
Tikhanovsky said that his wife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya remains the leader of the Belarusian opposition.
“The leader of the opposition is my wife, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, and I am not going to claim anything here. A person who spent five years in isolation cannot be a leader,” he said.
Let us recall that 46-year-old Sergei Tikhanovsky was released on June 21 amid the visit to Belarus of US Presidential Special Representative Keith Kellogg after five years of imprisonment.
On the same day, Lukashenko's regime released 14 political prisoners, including three Polish citizens, two Latvian citizens, one Estonian citizen, a Swedish citizen, a US citizen, and two Japanese citizens.
