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 for the week of May 16-22.
Support for Ukrainians and Belarusians
- Belarusian Volha Adamovich from Belarus made her house in Poland a shelter for Ukrainians, where she has already hosted over 2,500 people.
- Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with Queen Letizia and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of Spain. At the meetings, she spoke about the situation in Belarus, sanctions against the regime, and the Spanish government's assistance to Belarusians.
- Since the beginning of the war, a Belarusian, using his car painted in Ukraine’s national flag colors, has transferred 15,000 Ukrainians from the Polish-Ukrainian border.
- Belarusian footballer Yury Kendysh, who plays for the Latvian FC Riga, and his teammates purchased a Nissan X-Trail for the Ukrainian army.
- Belarusian volunteers returned a cat from Bucha to its owners.
- Belarusians of Batumi, Georgia, held a charity half-marathon Run for Ukraine Batumi.
- On May 15, the delegation of Belarus attended the solemn ceremony dedicated to the 77th anniversary of the Mauthausen camp liberation to commemorate the camp's prisoners. The organizers did not invite representatives of the Belarusian embassy in Austria to the ceremony because of the regime's complicity in the aggression against Ukraine.
- During her visit to Spain, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with the Senate President Ander Gil to discuss support for Belarusian initiatives in emigration, sanctions, and assistance to Belarusians forced to flee repression in Belarus and the war in Ukraine.
- On May 21, the Day of the Political Prisoner in Belarus, Belarusians and foreign friends of Belarus held rallies in Vilnius, Batumi, Szhczecin, Poznan, Krakow, Belgium, London, Prague, Bialystok, Bydgoszcz, and other European cities.
Resistance
- Belarusians in Minsk signed subway tokens with anti-war inscriptions.
- Belarusians continue distributing anti-war stickers and painting flags and messages in their cities.
- Minsk residents held a picket to highlight that Lukashenka is an executioner and a criminal.
- Minsk and Vawkavysk picketed residents picketed in support of Mikalai Autukhovich and all “terrorists” who were put on trial on May 18.
- Minsk residents held partisan actions to support the Belarus Kastus Kalinouski Battalion and the defenders of Mariupol.
- Belarusians continue painting anti-war messages in their cities.
- Belarusians of Minsk honored the memory of Pavel “Volat”, a Belarusian military volunteer of the Kalinouski Battalion who was killed while liberating Ukraine from Russian army forces.
- Belarusians honored the memory of Vitold Ashurak.
- Partisans of Kastsiukouka picketed to demand freedom for political prisoners.
- Belarusians in Homiel region dedicated their performance in the forest to political prisoners from Homiel.
Sabotage
- On May 16, a new railway service center building caught fire at the Asipovichy-1 station, East Belarus. In the aftermath of the accident, several offices, including the equipment, were completely burned out.
Awareness campaign
- Kyky.org launched a video project about Belarusian women. The first episode features a manifesto of women who decided not to stay on the sidelines, but to do everything to stop the war.
- Minsk residents designed a new local leaflet. It tells about the protests in the city district, the anti-war movement, the political prisoner Yauhen Babak, and more. Belarusians distribute underground media to counter state propaganda.
- Telegram blocked already the 8th channel of GUBAZiK, a regime “law enforcement” agency heavily involved in political repressions, for inciting hatred, promoting torture and violence.
- The Vestnik, in its new issue, covers how schools force children to participate in propaganda activities, companies cut wages and reduce working hours.
- The Chestnaja Gazeta new issue tells about the drop in real income in Belarus, the recognition of Russia as a terrorist state in Lithuania, secret mobilization in Russia, notes of a 8-year-old boy in Mariupol, and more. Belarusians distribute underground media as leaflets and newspapers to counter state propaganda.
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