Tikhanovskaya's confidant spoke about her departure to Lithuania

As Kovalkova told RIA Novosti, Tikhanovskaya had no choice.

“Svetlana is in Lithuania. Svetlana continues to be with the Belarusian people, she won ... She had no other choice ... The Belarusian authorities took her out of the country, the authorities organized her departure, ”she said.

Earlier, the head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry Linas Linkevicius said that Tihanovskaya was in Lithuania. He later added that before arriving in the Baltic republic, the politician was detained for seven hours on Belarusian territory.