In Minsk, Belarus, where the protests against the incumbent president Aleksandr Lukashenko have been ongoing for several months, a new video of shootings has surfaces.
The recordings and footages were published in the Telegram channel of the city magazine "Binoculars". The publication contents were dated from August 10. The video shows security forces firing on protesters on Radyanska Street, the central street of the regional center.
"The crowd approached the crossroads of Radianska street, which was absolutely empty, and Masherov’s street where there was a chain of law enforcement officials with shields. After the shelling, the police have begun a“cleaning up” the street and yards of the city. The crowd dispersed and people ran away in order to gather later already on Masherov’s street”. “The same exact moment of shooting in Brest on August 10, recorded on;y from another place. They shoot from the front. After the shooting, people ran away ... In the video, a woman tries to take her husband away, then bends down to hide from the shots," the videos' captions said.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus and the Russian Guard have signed a cooperation agreement. The document states that cooperation is carried out upon request from one of the parties for assistance. The initiative can also be taken by a party that believes “that such assistance is of interest for the other”. Notably, the language that the parties should use in the implementation of cooperation is Russian.
The agencies will cooperate on the protection of public order, protection of important state facilities and special cargo, the fight against terrorism and extremism, state control of arms circulation, ensuring the safety of fuel and energy complex facilities, protection of especially important and sensitive sites, protection of property of natural and legal persons, ensuring force support to combat crime.
As was reported earlier by ‘Apostrophe’, Russia, at the request of Alexander Lukashenko, had formed a reserve of law enforcement officers to help Belarus.