Svetlana Alexievich will not return to Belarus while Lukashenko is in power. This is what she said in her interview to “Der Spiegel”.

“What he's doing is a catastrophe. From the moment when the elections were falsified in August, 27 thousand people were arrested: scientists, professors, normal people, workers, students. This concerns all the strata of the population. Lukashenko is destroying the country,” Alexievich said.

The official Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba's comment on Lukashenko's statement about Americans special services which were hosted in Kyiv to run a disorder all around.

The significant part of the protest movement is located in Minsk living apartments. The buttons in this elevator are painted white-red-white. “Touch the freedom,” the sticker says.

The white-red-white flag of Belarus waves on top Mount Rohr in British Columbia Canada. It is 2400 meters above sea level.

People of Maladechna (a city in the north-west of Belarus, pop. ca 100k) blocked one of the streets. The banner reads “When there is lawlessness in the country, resistance is our duty!”

Hennadzi Korshunau, an ex-director of the sociology institute, was fired from the Academy of Sciences. He was the scientist who announced the results of the official poll regarding Lukashenka's trust index. In March and early April of 2020, only 24 percent of people in Minsk trusted Lukashenka, and only 11 percent trusted the Central Elections Commission.

The mayor's office of the Italian town of Palermo flew the white-red-white flag today.

The words on the building read “Pereunt et imputantur” – “the hours pass away and are accounted for.”

Rally in remembrance of Raman Bandarenka in Mogilev.

This is just one of several (dozens?) columns of protesters marching toward the city center of Minsk. People gathered in their courtyards and living blocks and then found a way to get together and not to meet too many siloviki before.

This is how people gathered together in Uruchcha district. Looks like a line of bush fighters streamed into the city street flow.

Possibly the first today's brutal detention took place near Vostok metro station at about 2 p.m. The protester was beaten by siloviki

South-west of Minsk. A local victory of the protesters over the security forces, who could not detain the girl in the end, even despite the use of special equipment.

Riot cop hit the young woman with a truncheon, she fell.