7/25/2023 0 Comments Limbo state![]() After Alexander Lukashenko's fraudulent re-election with more than 80% of the vote in August 2020, she became involved in the mass protests which rocked the country. Potemkina is from Soligorsk, a mining town in central Belarus. A confirmation for the same was given to the young woman by the immigration services: she must leave the country before July 15. As the Russian army uses Belarusian territory as a launchpad for its missile offensive on Ukraine, she is on the latter's deportation list. Potemkina had been living legally in Ukraine since late 2021 but failed to apply for a residence permit before the war. Now, she is volunteering to help resettle people internally displaced by the war. After the Russian armed forces withdrew from the Kyiv region in early April, she was among the ones who counted bodies in the martyred town of Bucha. A refugee in Ukraine after fleeing political repression in her country in December 2021, the 31-year-old was one of many Belarusians who chose to stay despite the start of the invasion on February 24. I didn't even think about leaving the country," said Karina Potemkina, seated on a bench in a sunny park in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv. ![]() "Ukrainians and Belarusians are neighbors. Subscribers only Karina Potemkina in a park in Boutcha, Ukraine, June 19, 2022. ![]() Since the beginning of the war, people from Belarus, whose regime is an ally of Moscow, have become 'suspects' in Ukranians' eyes.īy Thomas d’Istria Published on July 12, 2022, at 12:42 pm (Paris) ![]() Belarusian opponents in a state of limbo in Kyiv ![]()
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