“We are clearly on your side and support what you are doing,” Johnson told Cihanouskai.
He said his government was one of the first to impose sanctions on Alexander Lukashenko’s regime following the forced landing of a Ryanair plane in Minsk to detain opposition journalist Roman Protasevich.
Answering questions from journalists at the residence, Cihanouska said it was too early to comment on the death of Belarusian activist Vitaly Shishov in Kiev, who was found hanged in the park on Tuesday. Ukrainian police have said they will follow all the threads and admit there may have been a murder disguised as suicide.
Cihanouska said: “I understand that I can get lost at any time. I understand that, but I have to do what I do.”
“I cannot stop because I feel responsible for the future of our country, just as all Belarusians who fought against the government feel responsible,” Cihanouska said. “But I know that even if one day I disappear, this movement will continue without me.”
US President Joe Biden was welcomed to the White House last week at the White House.
Belarus was taken over by mass protests, with hundreds of thousands of people outraged by the rigging of the results, reportedly following the August 9 presidential election in Belarus, where long-term President Lukashenko was once again the winner.
The protests were brutally suppressed by the authorities and gradually subsided by the winter.
Tens of thousands of people were detained during the protests. Hundreds of protesters were injured, but several were also killed.
Lukashenko’s rival, Cihanouska, who the opposition believes is the real winner of the election, was forced to leave the country. Most of the other opposition leaders are also in prison or exile.
