Belarusian presidential challenger Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya encouraged European Union pioneers on Wednesday not to perceive what she called fake political race results, saying long-lasting pioneer Alexander Lukashenko had lost all authenticity.

Tsikhanouskaya was talking from banish in neighboring Lithuania before a crisis EU highest point, due to be held by video gathering, to examine the emergency unfurling in Belarus, where the Aug.9 political race started mass fights.

Tsikhanouskaya says she was the legitimate champ of the political race and needs new races to be held under a global oversight.

“I approach you not to perceive these deceitful races,” Tsikhanouskaya stated, talking in English in a video address. “Mr. Lukashenko has lost all authenticity according to our country and the world.”

Lukashenko is attempting to contain the fights and a flood of pauses dramatically the greatest test to his 26-year-old hang on power. He denies fixing the political race to make sure about a 6th term.

The EU has flagged it will force sanctions on Belarusian authorities it regards liable for political decision misrepresentation and a crackdown on shows in which in any event two nonconformists have been executed and thousands confined.

Consideration is immovably centered around how Russia will react to the greatest political emergency confronting an ex-Soviet neighbor since 2014 in Ukraine, when Moscow mediated militarily after an inviting pioneer was overturned by open fights.

Flight following information indicated that a Russian government plane used to convey senior government authorities, including the top of the FSB security administration, had made a brisk trip to Belarus and back, arriving in Moscow from the get-go Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has offered Lukashenko military assistance if necessary, talked by telephone to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel.

He cautioned Merkel and Macron against unfamiliar intruding in the undertakings of Belarus, a nearby Russian partner that conveys Russian vitality fares toward the West and is seen by Moscow as a key cushion against the EU and NATO.

‘Bealarus is not Europe’

The EU’s Industry Commissioner Thierry Breton said the alliance would consider the idea of Minsk’s relationship with Russia.

“Belarus isn’t Europe, it is on fringe of Europe, among Europe and Russia, and the circumstance isn’t practically identical to Ukraine or Georgia. Belarus is actually unequivocally associated with Russia and most of the populace is good to close connections with Russia,” he said.

Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde has offered to visit Minsk in her job as approaching seat of the OSCE, a security body that incorporates both Western nations and previous Soviet states, and frequently intervenes in the area.

Linde said she had spoken with Tsikhanouskaya who was “sure” in her response to the proposal of intercession by the OSCE.

The fights have spread to a portion of the nation’s major mechanical plants that support Lukashenko’s Soviet-style financial model. Police scattered an exhibition and kept two individuals at the Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ) plant on Wednesday.

Neighborhood media announced that security powers had assumed responsibility for a nineteenth century theater in Minsk that turned into a flashpoint for fights after its chief, a previous Belarusian ambassador, was terminated subsequent to standing up for the fights.