Alexander was arrested in May 2023 and convicted of posting comments slandering and insulting Lukashenko, as well as calls for the seizure of state power and the violent overthrow of the country's constitutional order, according to the case file. Furthermore, in August 2020, he made two donations in support of those detained.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
