New clashes, with a toll of at least 51 wounded according to the Ministry of Health, took place on the dark night in various cities of Belarus during the protests for the re-election of President Aleksandr Lukashenko. According to the BBC, protesters gathered in Minsk near the Kammenaya Gorka metro station last night and clashes immediately broke out. The police used tear gas, batons, stun grenades and rubber bullets. The BBC also denounces that the agents attacked a group of its journalists. According to Tut.by, the police arrested reporters in the cities of Minsk, Grodno and Brest.
The Belarusian Ministry of the Interior, according to which demonstrations were held in 25 towns, reports that officers arrested over 1,000 people during the night during protests against electoral fraud. The ministry also said that police used firearms against a group of people protesting in Brest, in the southwest of the country, and that one of the demonstrators was injured. The Interfax agency reports. According to the ministry, officers fired to defend themselves after being "attacked by a group of aggressive citizens holding metal bars". The Belarusian police are accused of using violence to try to suppress the protests of recent days.
The High Representative of EU politics, Josep Borrell, convenes an extraordinary Foreign Council for Friday afternoon , "to discuss urgent issues and address" the dossiers of the "situation in the Eastern Mediterranean, the presidential elections in Belarus, and developments in Lebanon. announces Borrell himself on Twitter.