From the Tsikhanouskaya railway station she went to the Lukyanovsky military cemetery, where Maria Zajtsova, a 24-year-old volunteer from Belarus who died in Donbas, is buried.
“For me, it was very important to start this visit by paying tribute to the person who gave his life for the freedom of Ukraine and Belarus,” Tsikhanouskaya wrote on her Telegram channel.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Kiev. He will meet with Zelensky
According to “Ukrainska Pravda”, the program of Tsikhanouskaya's visit includes meetings with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Minister of Foreign Affairs Andriy Sybiha, the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada, EU diplomats, as well as the opening of the Mission of the Democratic Forces of Belarus in Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelensky invited Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to Kiev during their first official bilateral meeting, which took place in January 2026 in Vilnius. Earlier, as the President of Ukraine said in an interview for the independent Belarusian edition of “Zerkalo”, he talked with Tsikhanouskaya at various international forums.
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya ran in the presidential elections in Belarus in 2020. The Belarusian Central Election Commission announced Alexander Lukashenko as the winner of the elections. The opposition reported numerous falsehoods and Tsikhanouskaya's victory. The largest protests in the country's history took place in Belarus and were brutally suppressed. Tsikhanouskaya was forced to leave the country.
