Lukashenko must win Belarus’s election, indicates research from the mouth

The EU and the US said they did not recognize him as Belarus’s legitimate leader after he used his security forces to crush mass protests after the last election in 2020, when Western governments supported Tsikhaouskaya’s claim that he had falsified them Results.

Tens of thousands of people were arrested. The Viassna Human Rights Group, which is banned as an “extremist” organization, says there are still about 1,250 political prisoners.

Lukashenko, who took his little dog with him to a Minsk election section, competed against four other candidates, none of whom had any serious challenge. But while there was no doubt about the result, he faces complicated choices in a new five -year term, which will be his seventh since 1994.

The war in Ukraine united him more strongly than ever to Russian President Vladimir Putin, with Lukashenko offering his country as a launching platform for the 2022 invasion and later agreeing to let Moscow put tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

(Report from Reuters in Minsk and Moscow, Mark Trevelyan and Filipp Lebedev in London and Andrew Gray in Brussels)