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At least six armored carriers headed for the State Flag Square. Next to this square is the Independence Palace, which houses the residence of the President of Belarus, Aliaksandr Lukashenko.
The column also housed military trucks, barbed wire trucks, and an ambulance.
Belarus has been organizing massive protests against the results of the presidential elections on August 9 for more than two months. The current president, Lukashenko, who has held office since 1994, was officially declared the winner of the elections.
The opposition’s demands include new elections and constitutional reform.
On August 18, the opposition, which did not recognize the results of the vote, created a Coordination Council with the aim of handing over power in the run-up to new elections.
Minsk considers the council unconstitutional and several of its members have been detained on suspicion of threatening national security.
About 10 journalists were arrested in the center of Minsk.
Law enforcement officers in central Minsk began arresting journalists on Sunday ahead of an unauthorized opposition “pride march”.
Witnesses told the Interfax news agency that an OMON bus from the militia special forces arrived near the Galerija shopping center to prepare journalists for the opposition campaign.
The OMON members who approached the journalists began to take them to the bus without any speech.
About 10 Belarusian and Russian journalists were arrested, including correspondents for the TASS, BelaPAN and BelTA news agencies.
The Ministry of the Interior, in turn, confirmed the fact of the arrest.
Natalia Hanusevich, spokeswoman for the main board of the Interior Committee of the Minsk City Executive Committee, said journalists were brought to the district interior department to verify the documents.
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