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  • Results of the Belarusian Anti-War Movement for April 1

    April 02, 2022

    Any Belarusian can join the Movement and choose from numerous options to resist the war and Belarus’ regime. Read the Manifest

    Here is an overview of the Movement on April 1.

    Support for Ukrainians and Belarusians

    • Thanks to the Interior Ministry working group on Belarusians’ issues in Poland, next week the Polish Parliament will consider amendments to issue humanitarian visas and 3-year humanitarian residence permits for Belarusians. The working group includes representatives of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Office, the National Anti-Crisis Management, and the Center for Belarusian Solidarity.
    • Gennadiy Druzenko, co-founder and head of the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, spoke about the support from Belarusians.
    • Belarusians raised 15.5 thousand euros for Ukraine at the Freedom Day concerts which were held in six cities throughout four countries. 
    • The BYSOL Foundation is sending a large humanitarian convoy to Ukraine loaded with medicines, bandaging materials, and 500 blood-stopping tourniquets.
    • Ihor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, assured Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya that he sees the difference between Belarusians and Lukashenka's regime, expressed support for the struggle of Belarusians, and thanked both the people of Belarus and Ms. Tsikhanouskaya.
    • Pavel Latushka held meetings in Krakow to discuss support for Belarusians who fled from Ukraine or Belarus and the inadmissibility of discrimination against Belarusians.
    • At the meeting with the Estonian Minister of the Interior, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya raised the issue of granting visas, residence permits, e-Residencies in Estonia to Belarusians, and relocation of Belarusian companies to Estonia.
    • Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya also met with the Latvian Foreign Minister, who explained that Latvia is not suspending the issuance of humanitarian visas, as well as visas for the politically repressed and family reunification visas.

    Resistance

    • Since the beginning of the war, partisans have conducted at least 10 successful sabotage operations on the railway to prevent Russian military equipment from entering Ukraine. 
    • Partisans wrote anti-war slogans in Vitsiebsk. 
    • Anti-war posters appeared in the unbroken Square of Changes in Minsk.
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