Nikolai Statkevich Returned To Belarus

• 11.09.2025, 19:36

The leader of the Belarusian opposition refused to stay in Lithuania.

Belarusian opposition leader Nikolai Statkevich refused to return to Lithuania, this was confirmed by LRT.lt in the State Border Guard Service (VSAT).

The politician in a prison robe has been in the neutral zone between Belarus and Lithuania for a long time.

Later, Lithuanian border guards recorded the police in a for a long time he was in the neutral zone between Belarus and Lithuania.

Later Lithuanian border guards recorded that the political prisoner went back deep into the territory of Belarus.

"He was on that side and did not go to Lithuania, there were no attempts to cross the border. Now he is no longer there, because he went deep inside the point," said VSAT representative Giedrius Mishutis.

He also denied the information, appeared in social networks, that there were more such abandoned Belarusian prisoners. When asked whether the man left of his own free will, Mishutis noted that he was accompanied by several Belarusian employees, but he walked by himself.

We recall that the former presidential candidate was arrested before the 2020 elections. He was held for 2 years and 7 months in the incommunicado regime in Hluboki prison.