In the center of Minsk, tens of thousands of opposition supporters gathered near the stele.

In Minsk, at the intersection of Prospektov Prospektov and Masherov near the stele "Minsk - Hero City", supporters of the opposition gathered. There are several tens of thousands of them, RBC reports.

TASS reports that more than 100 thousand people gathered for a protest campaign near the stele. TUT.BY claims that there are at least 200 thousand people.

The rally participants were distributed to four parts of the intersection at the stele. They hold white-red-white flags, flowers and balloons.

Law enforcement officers previously removed the cordon around the stele, which allowed the protesters to take a place near it. Participants in the action chanting slogans with the requirements of changes in the country, the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko and the release of detainees on protest shares.

Mobile communications at the venue of the promotion work with interruptions. People continue to flock to the place of its implementation from different ends of the city.

The column of people from the stele began to move along the winners Avenue towards Nemiga and Independence Square. Then the protesters occupied the entire area of ​​independence. They also filled the entire avenue to Lenin Street. On the steps of the KGB there were people with posters on whom the requirement to free political prisoners. People passing by the KGB shouted: "Let go!"

There was a video of how the central streets of the Belarusian capital look like, removed above the square from the copter. The frames show that tens of thousands of people participate in the action.

On Sunday, to the Minsk -Hero city stele, where a thousands of opposition supporters were held, a comrade -in -arms of the presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and a member of the United Staff of the opposition Maria Kolesnikova arrived.

In a brief speech, she demanded that the head of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko resign. “Our main requirement is that the former president must resign!” She said. Kolesnikova added that protesters demand to immediately cease violence. “The nightmare should end for 26 years, he drowned the country in violence. This should not continue,” the associate of Tikhanovskaya emphasized.

"This is grandiose! The Belarusian people are incredible! He demonstrates that it is rightfully among the European peoples," she told reporters. To the question of what the opposition intends to continue, taking into account that the country's President Alexander Lukashenko does not intend to resign, she replied: "He is no longer an opponent for us."

Maria Kolesnikova once again performed - now before the audience in Independence Square. She repeated, as she had already said by the stele, that "the main requirement of Belarusians - the former president must resign. We are free and European Belarusians - we ask for peace and security for our children."

Kolesnikova turned to employees of factories and factories, all officials and diplomats, power structures, television workers: "You now have the last chance to take the side of the people, we are most of us. She clarified that" according to numerous evidence and fixations, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya won the presidential election. "

In accordance with the official results of the elections on August 9, Lukashenko, who has been the presidency since 1994, won the election by a large margin from other candidates. The released election results caused mass protests that continue so far. About seven thousand people were detained, several hundred were injured, one person died in protest, one after the detention. According to media reports about the whereabouts of about 80 people detained on shares are still not known. From Thursday, peaceful protests began at Belarusian industrial enterprises. Protesters do not agree with the announced results of the elections of the head of state, according to which 80.1% of voters voted for Lukashenko, 10.12% for Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

Residents of Grodno took part in the protest campaign. They walked along the streets of the city from Sovetskaya Square to Lenin Square, holding a 70-meter white-red-white flag. More than 10% of the population came out in Grodno.

На улицах протестуют против "бывшего президента" Гомель, Зельва, Ивенец, Молодечно, Мосты, Мозырь, Полоцк, Новополоцк, Кричев, Раков, Жодино, Лида, Логойск, Марьина Горка, Волковыск, Жабинка, Заславль, Дрогичин, Волковыск, Пружаны, Белоозёрск, Смолевичи, Сморгонь, Mogilev, Klesk, Kostyukovichi and many other cities and settlements.

Belarusian state television showed protests for the first time. In cities, national white-red-white flags are massively erected.

Earlier on Independence Square, a pro -government rally was held , in which the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko took part. Supreme officials and heads of state bodies, including the chairman of the Council of the Republic, Natalya Kochanova and the head of the presidential administration, Igor Sergeyenko, also arrived there.

According to official figures of the authorities, more than 70 thousand people took part in the rally near the government house. However, according to the estimates of local media and the correspondent of RBC, several thousand people took part in the event.

Beautiful stele! #Zhimebelarus #Minsk #belrus #minks pic.twitter.com/ax4ockulky

- DENCHIK (@jamdencsgo) August 16, 2020

This is how the prospect of winners in Minsk looks like now. Photo by Tatyana Korovenkova and Dmitry Brushko. pic.twitter.com/uscsu6iyg8

- tut.by (@tutby) August 16, 2020