Detainees at Sovetskiy district police station inner yard.

Today, minskers sheltered protesters fleeing from “law enforcement officers” in their apartments. How many pairs of shoes do you see in the video?

A TUT.by reader found a shell of a rubber bullet "Barrier" on the ground.

According to her, she found the shell behind her back - on the dam on Niamiha.

“Thank God the guy ran away, but they didn't hit us,” she writes.

Perhaps the record for the number of detainees will be broken today. At about 9 pm, the list of the human rights center “Viasna” already contained 684 names, and this is not all. Relatives of detainees continued to gather near the metropolitan police department. There is the entrance to the Moscow district police station in the photo. At the moment of the photo, the policeman read out the names from the list.

Some of the detainees who were taken to the Sovetskiy District police station have been standing facing the fence for five hours.

At 9:40 p.m., there are 1050 detainees on the lists of @spiski_okrestina. The human rights center “Viasna” reports about 725 people detained at the protest actions today.

This is a view of today's march from the inside one of the columns. The video was taken before mass detentions started.

MORE BELARUSIANS JOIN THE STRIKE

On November 9, two people from BelAZ, the first two from their plant, join the strike: a welder Oleg Sosnitsky and a milling machine operator Sergei Valentyukevich.

The statements they filed with the plant's director list their demands: the retirement of Alexander Lukashenka, honest elections, the release of the political prisoners, and stopping police brutality. Valentyukevich also demanded that two department heads who pressure workers be fired.

Three more people joined the strike at Belaruskali - electrician Maxim Danilevich and repairmen Sergei Rozhko and Dmitry Bykov.

Activists at Hrodna Azot, supported by the “Honest People” initiative, are gathering applications from those who would like to join the strike but are afraid to do it publicly because there are few people currently participating. The applications can be sent via a chatbot, the deadline is November 10. If there are 500 or more applications, the strike committee representatives will contact those who sent them. Otherwise, the applications will be deleted forever.

Another person joining the strike is Elena Davydova, a bacteriologist from Homiel. (Back in August, she put forward her presidential candidacy in protest but wasn't registered and faced pressure from the police.)

“THE BELARUSIANS ARE HEROES” ● Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on yesterday’s march and mass detentions

“Over 1000 people arrested, hundreds of people kicked and beaten with truncheons. This is how you represent the regime? This is how you prove your legitimacy to the peaceful Belarusians and the entire world?

You will fail. The proud and fearless people will never believe those who dared raise their hand to them and take away their voice. Belarusians come out against you unarmed, without armor vests and combat vehicles - and they know that you will never be brave enough to do the same. The Belarusians come out understanding all the possible consequences while you lie to yourself, thinking that once the regime comes crashing down you will be saved. Belarusians protest against violence, and those who break people's legs to make them easier to detain, don't deserve to be called Belarusians.

The Belarusians are heroes. I thank everyone who protested yesterday for your bravery and willpower. I thank the students, medical workers, musicians, journalists, athletes, and everyone who was ready to be sent to jail so that the rest could continue the protest. I know that this path required sacrifices from all of us. And I know that it is easy to get depressed now. But each time when I thought I wouldn't be able to continue this fight, you showed me that together we can do anything. You were right.

Yes, our way to freedom turned out to be a marathon, but we will not give up now. No one but us will free our loved ones from prisons or bring back those forced into exile. There is no going back to the life that was before, and you know it. The regime keeps burying itself in crime and debt. It keeps up the terror and will be called to answer for it. So keep each other safe, support, and help each other. Together we will handle anything - including the hard way to the new free country.”

“Hands off our children!” participants of the “Wisdom March” are chanting. The column is marching along Nezavisimosti avenue.