The Belarussian candidate for the presidency of Lithuania, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, announced this Tuesday the Foreign Minister, Linas Linkevicius. "Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is safe. It's in Lithuania," he wrote on Twitter.

In an interview with the national radio station LRT, Linkevicius said that Tikhanovskaya had arrived in Lithuania after being detained in Belarus for seven hours. The minister has not yet specified how and how long Tikhanovskaya has arrived in Vilnius and what he intends to do.

On Monday, Belarus candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya asked the Central Electoral Board (JEC) to cancel the voting results and re-scrutinize the votes or repeat the elections. He said that he saw no reason to be arrested and that he would not leave Belarus.

On Monday, the head of the State Security Committee (KGB), Valery Vakulchi, reported that the Belarusian security services had prevented the attempted murder. According to the bishop, the agents of the order guarded the opposition headquarters so that "there would be no sacred sacrifice" in the country.

Disagreement with the outcome of the elections

On Sunday, Belarus held presidential elections in Belarus, where it won two presidential elections. According to the preliminary results, the acting president, Alexander Lukashenko, obtained 80.08% of the votes, while Svetlana Tikhanovskaya obtained 10.09% of the votes. The other three candidates did not obtain more than two percentage points.

After the results of the survey were known on 9 August, numerous cities and towns in the country have been involved in mass protests, which in some cases have led to clashes with the police. According to the Ministry of the Interior, more than 3,000 people were arrested and tens of people were injured in various ways. Protests resumed on Monday afternoon, starting at noon.