President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, during protests in Minsk, flew by helicopter to his residence in the city center, said the Telegram channel “Poole of the First”. The video published by him shows how Lukashenko leaves the helicopter in the body armor and with a machine gun in his hands. Later, the Pool of the First posted another video on which Lukashenko after leaving the helicopter (behind the scenes is heard by his hum) goes along the Independence Palace.

On Sunday, opposition marches took place in Minsk and many other cities of Belarus. In the capital, the action has become one of the most massive since the beginning of the protests. The security forces did not interfere with the march until the protesters approached the Independence Palace, where, according to media reports, Alexander Lukashenko was.

The Minister of Defense of Belarus, Viktor Krenin, announced that the military from today was taken under the protection and protection of memorials and monuments across the country. Protesters who arrange protests next to them will not deal with the police, but with the army, he said.

In Minsk, on Sunday, the opposition’s thousands of opposition marks are taking place, the protesters demand the resignation of President Alexander Lukashenko, freedom for all detainees and political prisoners, as well as trials over guilty of torture and murders. The account of the protesters is already for tens of thousands, RBC reports . TUT.BY reports 100,000 promotion participants.

The leader of the Ukrainian Batkivshchyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko, has contracted the coronavirus, said her press secretary Marina Soroka on Facebook. According to her, the politician's condition is assessed as serious, she has a temperature of 39 ° C. According to RBC Ukraine, members of the Tymoshenko family, her daughter Yevgenia and her husband Artur Chechetkin, also became infected with the coronavirus. Where and when Tymoshenko got infected is still unknown, the source said.

Museums and theaters have disclosed data on losses due to downtime during the pandemic, RBC reports , citing the plans for the financial and economic activities of well-known cultural institutions. The Bolshoi Theater will receive less than 1 billion rubles, and the income of the Museum of Cosmonautics this year will be 70% lower than planned. Museums, theatres, philharmonics and circuses under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture closed due to the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that if he were in the place of the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, he would definitely organize a repeat election. “I would definitely say: in a month there will be new elections. I'm going. Go who wants to. International observers - I would invite everyone, everyone. And I would say to the people of Belarus: please, choose,” he said in an interview with Euronews.

The flight of the plane with resuscitation equipment, on which politician Alexei Navalny was taken to Germany for treatment, was paid for by entrepreneur Boris Zimin and the Zimin family foundation. Navalny’s ally Leonid Volkov reported this on Facebook. He also thanked the German government for their help and personally Chancellor Angela Merkel for resolving “issues of bureaucracy and security.” Boris Zimin is the son of the creator of the largest mobile network Beeline, Dmitry Zimin.