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So when we were going from country to country asking to impose tough and joint sanctions against the regime, we got words of support, words of condemnation of this regime, but not real actions. only after hijacking of ryanair flight, strong sanctions have been imposed, but even they left so many loopholes in those sanctions that lukashenko could easily avoid them. after a hybrid attack with the help of migrants that lukashenko did in august, he didn't pay at all for this crime. you know, no powerful sanctions. nothing happened. of course he feels impunity. of course he understands that he can ...

Svetla na tikhanovskaya, welcome to hardtalk. hello. it's nice to have you in our studio. tell me, what are your feelings as you see your country, belarus, being used as a launchpad for vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine? you know, on 2a february, we woke up in a new reality, and we understood that lukashenko gave our land as the aircraft carrier for putin's troops to invade ukraine. we were shocked. nobody believed that the war could start because we remember the pain of world war ii, and we didn't want something like this to repeat in our lands. but illegitimate lukashenko has to pay for t...

What is democracy about? it's about the will of the people. before answering this question, i have to ask belarusians, "where do you want to go?" people want to live a normal life. we don't want our pensioners to live in poverty. this is what we want, our economy to develop — and how it will be fulfilled, that's the question. and this question, people have to answer. isn't the truth that, as you sit here with me in london — you're about to go see the foreign secretary, political avenues you are pursuing across the western world — isn't the truth that your fate now and the fate of belarus...

The military troops of russia. but if you go down this track of sabotage, of doing everything you can to halt and create obstacles to vladimir putin using belarus to invade ukraine, you run the risk of putin turning his forces and his anger on belarus. you know what putin is capable of, are you prepared to run that risk with the security of your own country? look, our country is de facto under partial military occupation, and lukashenko is not responsible for his decisions any more. he has to consult with kremlin about his future actions, so we belarusians have to take responsibility for the i...

Because they can't endure conditions they are in. and, you know, a week ago, after war started, we had massive rally on the streets of belarus. about 100,000 people went to show, you know, the attitude to this war, and about 800 people have been detained for one day. and one of the things they were protesting about was the most recent referendum that lukashenko pushed through, where he ended belarus's commitment to be nuclear—free. and the implication of that was clear, that if putin wanted to place nuclear weapons on belarusian territory, lukashenko would agree. when the protesters came out...