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Earlier this month, Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Cichanouskaya set a two-week deadline for Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenko to resign, end the violence and release political prisoners. Otherwise, he warned, there will be a general strike starting Monday.
Belarusian Telegram channels and the media report that employee meetings are being held at major Belarusian companies: Grodno Azot, Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant (MZKT), Minsk Tractor Plant (MTZ), Minsk Power Plant.
According to Telegram channels, more than 100 strike reports were received on Monday morning.
According to the portal tut.by, “MTZ employees go through the workshops, gather people to strike. The administration ordered the closure of the workshops in front of the column. “
“MTZ, smithy. Employees left, clapped and chanted: “Join,” reports the portal.
“Laisvės radio” reported that “two large planes with OMON officers entered the territory of Grodno Azot. People are persuaded to start work. A red-white-red flag is raised.”
It is announced that some students are also preparing to strike.
At that time, the Belneftechim group denied the information disseminated on the Telegram platform about the Grodno Azot strike.
Deputy Minister of Industry Ceslav Shulha, for his part, said Belarusian industrial companies were operating as usual on Monday morning.
“Currently we have no information that the companies are on strike. All companies are operating normally,” he said.
For the third month in a row, there have been massive protests in Belarus over the August 9 presidential elections, which Lukashenko has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and Western democracies consider these elections to be rigged.
More than 100 thousand. Belarusians participated in a march in Minsk on Sunday, demanding the resignation of authoritarian President Aliaksandr Lukashenko.
The protest took place at the end of the ultimatum announced by the opposition.
The militia used sound grenades and tear gas to dispel the protesters. Witnesses reported that more than a hundred people were arrested in Minsk and Grodno.
To prevent the demonstration, metro stations in central Minsk were closed and the operation of the mobile Internet was restricted.
Opposition leader Sviatlana Cichanouskaya, who lives in Lithuania, issued an ultimatum to Lukashenko two weeks ago, demanding his resignation, an end to the violence and the release of political prisoners. She says a massive strike will start on Monday if Lukashenko does not comply.
The European Union and other Western countries have imposed sanctions on members of the regime for manipulating the August 9 presidential elections and violence against peaceful protesters.
Lukashenko has asked Moscow for help and Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised him $ 1.5 billion in support.
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