Protesters approached the stela “Minsk - Hero City”. It is guarded by military personnel behind barbed wire.

Updated . The protesters began to move from the stele "Minsk - Hero City" towards the State Flag Square, next to which is the Palace of Independence built by Lukashenka. This route was proposed by the opposition telegram channel Nexta.

Some of the protesters in Minsk approached the stele "Minsk - Hero City", which was guarded by military personnel. It is reported by Tut.by.

According to Nasha Niva, the stele is guarded by more than a thousand servicemen. They are behind a metal fence and barbed wire. The protesters who approached the stele stood across the road from them.

Some protesters began to approach the soldiers behind barbed wire, reported Kommersant correspondent Alexander Chernykh . Maria Kolesnikova, a member of Viktar Babaryka’s headquarters and Svyatlana Tikhanovskaya’s comrade-in-arms, asked everyone to move away from the stele so as not to provoke bloodshed.

• On August 23, the action "March of New Belarus" takes place in Minsk. According to Tut.by and Euroradio, at least 100,000 people have joined it. The protesters gathered on Independence Square, after which they moved to the Planet Hotel, which is located opposite the Minsk Hero City stele.
• Before the start of the action, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said that the army would protect monuments to those who died in the Great Patriotic War from protesters. Soon, were brought to the “Minsk – Hero City” stele, barbed wire was stretched near the memorial. servicemen