‘Resign!’: Alexander Lukashenko heckled by factory workers in Minsk

Embattled Belarus president looked shaken as people yelled ‘liar’ in fresh blow to regime

• ‘We will win’: vast Belarus rally adamant Lukashenko must go

Alexander Lukashenko’s grip on power in Belarus has taken a further hit, as workers heckled him during a visit to a factory on the outskirts of Minsk.

The visit to the the state-owned MZKT military vehicles factory on Monday was meant to show the Belarusian president was still in control and retained the support of workers at the vast factories that are the backbone of the country’s neo-Soviet economy, a day after the biggest rally in the country’s recent history against his rule.

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