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In Kiev on Sunday held a rally of solidarity with Belarusian protesters. The March participants demanded to recognize the victory of Svetlana Tikhanovski in the recent elections of the President of the neighboring country and called on the security forces of Belarus “to stop the war against its own citizens”. Dissatisfied with the current Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Ukrainian authorities. His statement about “Ukrainian trace” in the demonstrations the office of President Vladimir Zelensky considered an attempt to “silence the voice of thousands of protests.” And the results Moscow of alleged fighters of the private military company “Wagner” and is regarded as a stab in the back.Marches, rallies and demonstrations in support of democratic reforms in Belarus are going on in different cities of Ukraine for a week. The requirements do not change: President Alexander Lukashenko urge to admit defeat in the elections of 9 August, to give power to Svetlana Tikhanovski and release all those detained during anti-government protests.Read next Kiev these shares are usually held near the building of Belarusian Embassy. In recent days, there rallied the representatives of the international human rights organization Amnesty International, activists of nationalist movements, the veterans of the ATO (anti-terrorist operation in Kiev called the fighting in the Donbass), the Belarusian dissidents, anarchists, representatives of the LGBT community.Sunday March from Mikhaylovskaya square to the Embassy of Belarus was the most ambitious: in Kiev under the white-red-white flags passed hundreds of activists. “Ukraine, Europe, the whole civilized world needs to recognize the elections as rigged and Lukashenko — a usurper. For 26 years he was raping the country, this must end. And our brothers and Nebrat-Muscovites, I want to say that nothing good is waiting for you if you try to prevent the people of Belarus to seek the truth. We are not against you, but be warned that the occupation will not be tolerated”,— explained his position in the Belarusian language young woman holding a poster with the inscription “Lukashenka, you *****”.Posters with the demands to Alyaksandr Lukashenka to admit defeat and speech people gathered on Mykhailivska square before the March, angered a middle-aged passer, which attacked the demonstrators with insults. “How much you pay for this mess, you bastards? How can you dare such a person in something to accuse?! We have a President, he would be quickly brought order, and you are the bastards saying things about him,” shouted a supporter of Alexander Lukashenko. The President of Belarus really enjoys considerable support from ordinary Ukrainians. Thus, according to the poll conducted by the group “Rating” in November 2019 among the citizens of Ukraine, he was�� most popular foreign leader. 66% of respondents said that relate to it positively, while those who confessed to dislike of the Belarusian President, was only 15%.Admitted warm feelings for the neighbor and the Ukrainian elite. The former head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko during the years of the presidency was openly calling his Belarusian counterpart a personal friend and friend of all Ukraine. His successor, Vladimir Zelensky took Mr Lukashenko in Zhytomyr, spoke about the brotherly relations between the two countries and promised to visit Belarus.Now, it seems, all it already in the past. “I can’t silently watch as Belarus slides into chaos and political uncertainty. Violence, mass repression has no place in the modern civilized world”,— reads the statement of Mr. Poroshenko.Vladimir Zelensky also appealed to Belarusian counterpart, expressing dissatisfaction with Minsk’s decision to transfer to Russia all Russians arrested July 29 and associated with the so-called private military companies (PMCs) “Wagner”. Kiev has requested the extradition of 28 of the 33 detainees, saying it has evidence of these people committing crimes in the Donbass. Alexander Lukashenko, initially promising to transfer detainees to the Ukrainian militiamen, did not keep his word: none of the “mercenaries” to Ukraine was not. “This is a bad story. The story, which clearly ignored the trust, objectivity and an adequate assessment of adverse effects. Think this decision is, to put it mildly, unfair, inconsistent with the spirit of relations between Ukraine and Belarus”,— said Vladimir Zelensky.Read daliea the Ukrainian foreign Ministry expressed concern over the statements of Alexander Lukashenko about the alleged involvement of Ukrainian citizens to organize protests. “We are outraged that the President of a friendly state accuses Ukrainians of destabilizing the situation in Belarus. There is no evidence. While evidence of involvement in terrorist activity 28 mercenaries “PMC Wagner” detained in Belarus, there is. And they were detailed in the extradition request, which the Ukrainian side has sent to Minsk to criminals suffered a just punishment. But “vagnerovsky” with the blessing of the Belarusian authorities returned to Russia to continue to commit crimes on the territory of sovereign States”,— is spoken in the comment of the foreign Ministry.Note that the political crisis provoked by the unwillingness of the opposition-minded Belarusians to recognize the election results August 9, in the office of the President of Ukraine commented on quite peculiar. In a statement the office where more attention is paid to the accusations of the official Minsk to the Ukrainian citizens and officials allegedly inciting the protest moodtion, than the actual crisis. “Undoubtedly, a reference to one or another neighboring state cannot stifle the voice of the mass protests of their own citizens. If there is no trust, and the world sees that confidence and not close, then this deficit unjust accusations against the “leadership of another country” not fill. Rather, it is possible to cause even more distrust,”— said in the statement. However, neither the Cabinet nor the President’s office has not yet made any statements on the recognition or non-recognition of results of voting in the neighbouring country. Unlike Petro Poroshenko or the head of the party “Fatherland” Yulia Tymoshenko, who called for new elections, they do, except for the issue of the alleged “vagnerova”, Minsk did not ask.But the presidential faction “servant of the people” made a statement of unequivocal support for “the aspirations of the people of Belarus to democracy”. “Pay special attention to the de facto President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on the fate of the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, whose appeal for help in the war against its own people to the Russian Federation led to external military aggression”,— said in the statement, the collection of signatures of deputies under which is not yet complete. Members of “Voices”, by the way, took active part in several promotions in the Belarusian Embassy, but during Sunday’s March they could not see. Generally the March was announced as the campaign nonpartisan, its members urged not to show any symbols, except for the national flags of Ukraine and the white-red-white banners of the Belarusian opposition. Such oppositional banners now in Kiev in a large deficit in the free market they are almost there. Can you get them from those who brought flags from Belarus, or wait several weeks for delivery from the Chinese online stores, or to order the printing of sheets at printing companies. On these banners, the protesters tied to the metal fence of the Embassy after each event, promising watching in the window diplomats that very soon the revolutionary flags will be unfurled and hoisted on all administrative buildings of Belarus and its diplomatic missions. In the morning the flags on the ground doesn’t happen. But in the evening, along with another wave of demonstrations, they appear again.Matthew Shimanov, Kiev