Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election Western governments rejected as a sham.

International observers who monitored the presidential election in Belarus told the STV TV channel how they assess the organizational level of the election, BelTA reports.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also expressed its belief that a democratic and sovereign Belarus, in which the people, not one person, will determine the future, will be a factor of long-term stability in the region, and not an accomplice in Russia's war against Ukraine.

On the potential overthrow of Lukashenko's regime in Belarus, the relationship between the Belarusian dictator and Putin, propaganda, ongoing repression, the Oreshnik system, and nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory — read in the RBC-Ukraine's interview with Anton Motolko,

Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called a sham the so-called "presidential elections" in Belarus organised by Alexander Lukashenko's regime on 26 January, and has stated it does not recognise them as legitimate.

Belarus’ opposition activists and Western officials have denounced an orchestrated election that extended the over three-decade rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending President Lukashenko's more than 30 years in power.

But don’t confuse Belarus’s likely quiet for a lack of yearning for freedom; the courage of Belarus’s pro-democracy activists and journalists, whether at home or abroad, remains undiminished.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years o

“Today’s sham election in Belarus ... freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders filed a complaint against Lukashenko with the International Criminal Court over his crackdown on free speech ...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement describing the so-called “presidential elections” in Belarus organised by Alexander Lukashenko’s regime on 26 January as a “farce” and declaring that it does not recognise them as legitimate.

Today's sham election in Belarus has been neither free, nor fair. The people of Belarus deserve a real say in who governs their country. The