Any Belarusian can join the Movement and choose from numerous options to resist the war and Belarus' regime.
Here is an overview of the Movement on May 26.
Support for Ukrainians and Belarusians
- Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Office opened a headquarters in Ukraine. Valery Kavaleuski explained what it will focus on. Among the issues to be solved are unblocking bank accounts of Belarusians, migration issues, etc.
- A Belarusian journalist worked as an assistant clown. He traveled around Poland to entertain Ukrainian refugee children.
- Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Veranika Tsapkala and Maryia Kalesnikava were awarded the prestigious Charlemagne Prize: “The medal belongs to all Belarusians”.
- The BYSOL Foundation sent another van to Ukraine along with four fully stocked casualty care backpacks for medics.
- The Support Ukrainian Women Belarusian action group sent 500 Rape Kits to Ukrainian female victims of violence.
- Belarusians donated an electric generating set to the Territorial Defense Battalion in Sloviansk.
- A group of representatives of the Belarusian diaspora: business, civil society, a delegate from Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Office, and a representative of the People's Embassy of Belarus met with Estonian MPs and representatives of the Estonian Foreign Ministry and Ministry of the Interior. They spoke about the situation in Belarus and raised the issue of renewing visa and residence permit issuance for Belarusians in Estonia.
Resistance
- Minsk residents wrote anti-war statements across the city.
- Belarusians in Barauliany picketed to demand freedom for political prisoners.
Sabotage
- The Hajun project, which monitors the movements of Russian troops in Belarus, released an operational summary for May 25.
- BYPOL, a union of former security officers, released a piece proving that Mikalai Markau, a general of the Belarusian Armed Forces, had been fighting for Russia in Ukraine. BYPOL shared some of his personal details and explained his involvement in the war.
Awareness campaign
- Anton Matolka, founder of the Hajun project, spoke with a Ukrainian TV channel and explained the meaning of Lukashenka's letter to UN Secretary General Guterres, in which he claims that Belarus is not an aggressor and proposes to agree on a new world order: “This is a cheap manipulation used by Aliaksandr Lukashenka for many years. Lukashenka is a war criminal, he is a direct participant in the war in Ukraine and he must be brought to justice before a tribunal, before the people of Ukraine and the people of Belarus, among others”.
- Siarhei Biaspalau, administrator of some large Belarusian Telegram channels and now a volunteer of Belarus Kastus Kalinouski regiment gave an interview and spoke about Belarusian military volunteers defending Ukraine.
- Media IQ released a video on the manipulation of history, the "rebranding" of Stalin, and the "right" version of the past. This will help target the regime’s disinformation and propaganda in the year it announced a “Year of Historical Memory”.
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