A Belarussian serviceman of the Ministry of Emergency Situations performs during a Fire Service Day celebrations, in Minsk, Belarus, 25 July 2020. Fire Service Day is a professional holiday of all firefighters of Belarus. This holiday is annually observed on 25 July, commemorating the day, when the statement for maintaining the fire department in the Minsk Governorate was adopted in 1863. (Photo by Tatyana Zenkovich/EPA/EFE)





In this photo taken from video released by Belarusian KGB, State TV and Radio Company of Belarus on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, a Belarusian KGB officer detains a Russian man in a sanitarium outside in Minsk, Belarus. Belarusian officials said that more than 30 detained employees of private Russian military contractor Wagner are facing a criminal probe on charges of plotting terror attacks in Belarus amid a presidential election campaign. (Photo by Belarusian KGB, State TV and Radio Company of Belarus via AP Photo)





Alternative candidate Andrei Dmitriev (R) of the Tell the Truth social movement poses with a supporter as he campaigns ahead of the Belarusian presidential elections on July 18, 2020 in Minsk, Belarus. Next month’s presidential elections in Belarus are scheduled for August 9. (Photo by Tanya Kapitonova/Getty Images)





Maria Kolesnikova, a representative of Viktor Babariko, right, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, candidate for the presidential elections, centre, and wife of non-registered candidate Valery Tsepkalo, Veronika Tsepkalo, gestures during a news conference in Minsk, Belarus, Friday, July 17, 2020. Tikhanovskaya said at a news conference Friday that she would unite efforts with the campaigns of Valery Tsepkalo and Viktor Babariko, who were denied registration. She added that she's also open to coordination with three other candidates left on the ballot. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, candidate for the presidential elections, reacts during a meeting with her supporters in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, July 19, 2020. The presidential election in Belarus is scheduled for August 9, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





Belarusian police block the street in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. The country's central election commission on Tuesday allowed five candidates on the ballot, denying spots to Valery Tsepkalo, founder of a successful high-technology park and a former ambassador to the United States, and former banker Viktor Babariko. Dozens of demonstrators have been detained by police in the capital and the city of Borisov, a Belarusian human rights group said. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





Belarusian police officers detain a man in Minsk, Belarus, Saturday, August 8, 2020. On Saturday evening, police arrested at least 10 people as hundreds of opposition supporters drove through the center of the capital waving flags and brandishing clenched-fist victory signs from the vehicles' windows. The presidential election in Belarus is scheduled for August 9, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





Law enforcement officers detaining journalists who were on assignment are photographed by a Reuters photographer a moment before his detention, in Minsk, Belarus on July 28, 2020. All members of the media were released after being brought to and questioned at a local police station. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)





Belarusians attend a meeting in support of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, candidate for the presidential elections in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, July 30, 2020. Tikhanovskaya said she would not cancel any campaign rallies because of the stricter security. Thousands of Tikhanovskaya's supporters gathered Thursday at her campaign rally in Minsk, and many participants dismissed the official claims of a Russian subversion plot as a sham. The presidential election in Belarus is scheduled for August 9, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





Belarusian soldiers read biographers of candidates at a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, August 9, 2020. Belarusians are voting on whether to grant their authoritarian president a sixth term in office, following a campaign marked by unusually strong demonstrations by opposition supporters frustrated with the country's stumbling economy, political repression and weak response to the coronavirus pandemic. Incumbent Alexander Lukashenko, in office for 26 years, has made it clear he won't hesitate to quash any attempt by his opponents to protest the results of Sunday's election. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





In this file photo taken on Sunday, August 2, 2020, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, candidate for the presidential elections greets people waving old Belarus flags during a meeting to show her support, in Brest, 326 km (203,7 miles) southwest of Minsk, Belarus. Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko faces a perfect storm as he seeks a sixth term in the election held Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020 after 26 years in office. Mounting public discontent over the worsening economy and his government’s bungled handling of the coronavirus pandemic has fueled the largest opposition rallies since the Soviet collapse. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





A woman assists a man in a wheelchair during early voting for Belarus' presidential election at a polling station in the village of Proshkava, some 180 km north of Minsk, on August 4, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP Photo)





Supporters of presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanouskaya attend an election campaign rally in Bobruisk, Belarus on July 25, 2020. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)





Belarusian army special troops demonstrate their equipment and weapons as Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko visits the military base in the town of Maryina Gorka, 60 kilometers (37 miles) southeast of Minsk, Belarus, Friday, July 24, 2020. Lukashenko warned Thursday that Western media could be expelled from the country over what he described as their “tendentious” coverage of the presidential election next month in which he is seeking a sixth term. The presidential election in Belarus is scheduled for August 9, 2020. (Photo by Nikolai Petrov/BelTA Pool Photo via AP Photo)





People hold portraits of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, candidate for the presidential elections, left, wife of non-registered candidate Valery Tsepkalo, Veronika Tsepkalo, centre, Maria Kolesnikova, a representative of Viktor Babariko, right, during a meeting in Borisov, Belarus, Thursday, July 23, 2020. The longtime leader of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko warned Thursday that Western media could be expelled from the country over what he described as their “tendentious” coverage of the presidential election next month in which he is seeking a sixth term. The presidential election in Belarus is scheduled for August 9, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





Servicemen vote in voting booths at a polling station during an early voting in the 2020 Belarusian presidential election which is held on 4-8 August in Minsk, Belarus on August 4, 2020. The 2020 Belarusian presidential election is scheduled for 9 August. (Photo by Natalia Fedosenko/TASS)





Soldiers on their knees pray and lay flowers for the protector saint of the soldiers during the celebrations of the Army Day in Minsk, Belarus on August 2, 2020. (Photo by Celestino Arce/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Belarusian servicemen perform during an event dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Soviet Airborne Forces by Sports Palace on the eve of Day of Paratroopers and Special Operations Forces of Belarus in Minsk on August 1, 2020. (Photo by Natalia Fedosenko/TASS)





Belarusian paratroopers perform during celebrations marking the 90th anniversary of the airborne troops in Minsk, Belarus on August 1, 2020. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)





Belarusian servicemen smash tiles during an event dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Soviet Airborne Forces by Sports Palace on the eve of Day of Paratroopers and Special Operations Forces of Belarus in Minsk on August 1, 2020. (Photo by Natalia Fedosenko/TASS via Getty Images)





Belarusian paratroopers perform during celebrations marking the 90th anniversary of the airborne troops in Minsk, Belarus on August 1, 2020. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)