After participating in protests and later witnessing the defeat of the Belarusian revolution in 2020, Yauhen and his family were faced with the option of either leaving Belarus or waiting to be arrested. Belarusians went out into the streets to protest against dictator Alexander Lukashenko when he declared victory against his political opponent Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in the 2020 presidential election. Hundreds of instances of voter fraud were recorded by NGOs like the Voice Platform, the Zubr Platform, and the Honest People Initiative, who came to the conclusion that Lukashenko could not have won 80% of the vote as he had claimed.