On Pushkinskaya, security forces are trying to help a guy who is lying on the ground unconscious

Minsk. The security forces got to the "Square of Changes", surrounding the memorial to Roman Bondarenko and people who are protecting it. Several people were detained. But then the unexpected happened - people in uniform and helmets stopped, and began to retreat. It seems that at a certain crucial moment they were ordered not to touch the national memorial in memory of Roman Bondarenko.

There are 10 armed riot cops per one peaceful protester. The police is picking off people one-by-one

All of the people at the Square of Change have been detained. There is no room in the police van. Viasna (a human rights advocacy group) reports 323 arrests, however, this is not the final number.

The siloviki are destroying the memorial to Roman Bondarenko: putting flowers, tents, and lanterns into trash bags. The Square of Change is completely surrounded by the police. Meanwhile, the detained people are still standing queue to enter the police van.

The siloviki are detaining people en masse at the houses near the Square of Change

“Call the ambulance! Don't shove him into the truck!”

The women shout that the man has cerebrocranial injury and that he can't walk but the riot cops still push him into the truck.

A person in a column of protesters filmed the grenades being thrown at them.

Around 20 plainclothesmen are taking the flowers from the memorial to the bus.

Solidarity chains begin to form around Minsk. This one is near the Frunzensky police precinct where the police take the people who got arrested today.

People are being beaten and arrested at a shop

People of Soligorsk gathered near one of the memorials to Roman Bondarenko to set it in order.

During the raid in Square of Changes nearby, the siloviki took 5 people out of their apartments and put them against the wall