Thousands of people are again on the streets of Minsk, demanding that
Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko step down. The state’s Belarus News agency, Belta, reports that Lukashenko said this morning: “There is a need to contact Putin so that I can talk to him now, because it is not a threat to just Belarus anymore. Defending Belarus today is no less than defending our entire space, the Union State.... Those who roam the streets, most of them do not understand this.” He referred to the demonstrations as a “color revolution” being orchestrated from outside the country.
