Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was shown arriving this Sunday evening, in a bulletproof vest and a Kalashnikov assault rifle in hand, at his residence in Minsk, located not far from the opposition protests.
The video, posted on Telegram by the Belarusian presidency, shows Lukashenko, 65, getting off a helicopter after landing on the territory of his official residence, the Independence Palace.
This residence is located about two kilometers from where opposition supporters rallied en masse, maintaining the pressure after two weeks of a historic protest movement.
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“The president wears a bulletproof vest and holds an automatic weapon in his hands”, specifies the message accompanying the video.
According to the footage, Lukashenko appears to be wearing a folding butt Kalashnikov, without a magazine.
The mobilization continues
The mobilization against the strong man of Belarus has not weakened since the announcement of the results of the ballot of August 9 which gave him the winner with 80% of the votes.
On Sunday, it seemed equivalent to that of last week, when some 100,000 people took to the streets of the Belarusian capital on August 16, according to AFP journalists.
In power for 26 years, Lukashenko, had sworn this week to “solve the problem” of the dispute, the result of a Western plot according to him, and even put the army on alert, accusing NATO of maneuvering in borders of Belarus.
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