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“Representatives of the Lugansk People’s Republic militia are going to Minsk to question Protasevičius. Apparently, Lukashenko has given them the green light,” blogger T. Gitzzan said Friday night, according to the Donbasstoday bulletin.
This should draw the attention of the Ukrainian authorities to the harsh criticism of the Belarusian regime’s close contacts with the Donbass separatists in recent days.
Lrytas.lt recalls that after the Minsk regime forcibly landed a Ryanair passenger plane flying from Athens to Vilnius in the Belarusian capital, opponent R. Pratasevičius and his fellow traveler Sofija Sapega were detained.
After last year’s presidential elections last August, which the opposition and western democracies consider rigged, Belarus has been rocked for months by unprecedented mass protests. The winner of that vote was authoritarian leader Aliaksandr Lukashenko, who has ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly three decades.
