Tikhanovskaya wrote down the answer to Zelensky: You can not switch from Ukrainian to Russian
Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya recorded a response to Vladimir Zelensky. A former candidate for the presidency of Belarus said that the President of Ukraine may not switch to Russian when addressing Belarusians. – Dear President Zelensky, you said that Belarusians are for Ukrainians, and this is true. We understand each other like never before. And so the next time you address Belarusians, you may not switch from Ukrainian to Russian,” Tikhanovskaya said in Belarusian. Also, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya addressed her message to the government of Ukraine and local authorities.< /p> – Both the people of Ukraine and the people of Belarus have their own national interests. And now they coincide, because both of our peoples want to return to peaceful life, get rid of the Russian occupation and finally defeat the dictatorship as a phenomenon. Our peoples now support each other, and the task of politicians is to help them in this. Do not separate when it will only help the enemy. Belarusians will do everything possible to help Ukraine. We don't want anything in return but respect for our path. Respect for our experience and our right to be ourselves – Belarusians, she said. Tikhanovskaya said that without a free Ukraine there can be no free Belarus, and without a free Belarus there can be no security in Ukraine. According to her, Belarusian mothers call military units and demand that their sons not be sent to war against Ukrainians. On June 26, Vladimir Zelensky addressed the citizens of Belarus in his traditional evening video message. The President switched from Ukrainian to Russian and said that the authorities are drawing the people of Belarus into the war more actively than in February and spring. He noted that the inhabitants of Belarus are not slaves and not cannon fodder and expressed confidence that a lot depends on ordinary people. On June 21, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya spoke at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg. She said that more than two thousand citizens of Belarus were detained for protesting against the war in Ukraine. According to her, the Belarusian partisans committed more than 80 acts of sabotage against the Russian army. 1.5 thousand volunteers from Belarus are fighting on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
