The former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has recorded a video message to the head of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
He urged the Belarusian authorities to immediately cease the violence, to release peaceful protesters and to hold repeat presidential elections. Corresponding video the former President posted on his page in Facebook.
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In addition, Poroshenko asked the head of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to appoint a representative from a country, which European partners need to influence the conflict.
Earlier the President of Lithuania Gitanos Nausea said that his country and Latvia and Poland has prepared a plan to resolve the Belarus crisis. According to him, the European States are ready to become intermediaries in the solution to the problem. Otherwise against Minsk may impose sanctions.
In Belarus from August 9, there are protests. Their members are dissatisfied with the results of past presidential elections. According to the CEC, incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko scored 80,08% of the vote. In second place Svetlana Tikhanovski — 10,09%. The other three candidates — Anna Konopacka, Andrey Dmitriev and Sergey Caraceni managed to enlist the support of no more than two percent of the electorate each.
Security forces dispersed the protesters using water cannons, stun grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas. In total, they detained more than two thousand demonstrators.
And on 10 August during the protests, a man died. According to security officers, he tried to throw a grenade in the direction of law enforcement officers, it exploded in his hand. Opposition supporters believe that he was killed by security forces thrown stun grenades.
