KYIV – Since the beginning of massive protests in Belarus that began after presidential election results considered to be falsified were announced, declaring that incumbent Alyaksandr Lukashenka was the winner, Belarusian and Ukrainian activists have gathered almost daily in front of the Belarusian Embassy in Kyiv.
Protesters in Kyiv have expressed their solidarity with demonstrators in Belarus and have demanded that the results of voting conducted at the Belarusian Embassy in Kyiv be published. That has not happened. However, Belarusians who live in Ukraine’s capital say that votes from the Kyiv polling station are mostly in favor of opposition candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who was forced to leave Belarus in the aftermath of the election’s conclusion on August 9.