Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled Belarusian opposition leader, arrived in Kyiv on May 25 for her first visit to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion over four years ago. Her trip coincides with rising tensions between Kyiv and Minsk, following Ukraine's implementation of heightened security measures in its northern border regions and a recent joint Russian-Belarusian nuclear training exercise that has drawn concern from Ukrainian and European officials. Tsikhanouskaya expressed her intention to explore how Belarusian society can assist Ukraine, emphasizing that the war's outcome will significantly impact Belarus's own future and potential for liberation from dictatorship. Her visit follows a major Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv, one of the most severe in recent times, and occurs while Belarus has facilitated Russian troop movements and provided medical support to wounded Russian soldiers, though it has refrained from committing its own forces to the conflict.