“It is difficult to assess otherwise than interference in the internal affairs of another state, the fact that, declaring the alleged“ illegitimacy ”of the elections in Belarus, the Lithuanian authorities publicly call A.G. Lukashenko“ the former president ”, impose sanctions on him,” said in a statement.
At the same time, Vilnius, Zakharova notes, has provided asylum to one of the candidates who participated in the elections and is organizing her meetings with the leadership of Lithuania itself and "high-ranking representatives of the US and EU countries, calling for" decisive international action. "
“Such steps of Vilnius, which the Lithuanian masters of political intrigue are trying to disguise as a desire to“ help ”the Belarusians, in fact only shake the situation," the diplomat emphasized.
Earlier, the ex-presidential candidate of Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who left for Lithuania, said that she could return to her country when she felt safe.
As noted by the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, Tikhanovskaya had to help with leaving for Lithuania, and this happened "not without his participation."