Belarus’ opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya fled to Lithuania after Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in a disputed 2020 election that was viewed in the West as fraudulent, and which many thought she won.
Speaking at the Warsaw Security Conference earlier this week she said she believed Russia’s setbacks in Ukraine could loosen Lukashenko’s grip on power. “We have a distracted Russia that is about to lose this war. It won’t be able to prop Lukashenko up with money…