On her Twitter page, she wrote that the presidential elections in Belarus "were neither free nor fair."

“State violence and suppression of freedoms and rights are unacceptable. The EU will review relations with Belarus and take action against those responsible, ”von der Leyen said.

Earlier, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry stated that “it is absolutely unacceptable how quickly a number of European officials made important ... political statements, even without trying to objectively understand and really assess the situation” in Belarus.