{"id":571303,"date":"2026-08-26T15:58:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=571303"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:00:44","slug":"interior-ministry-holds-exercises-to-suppress-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/interior-ministry-holds-exercises-to-suppress-protests","title":{"rendered":"Interior Ministry Holds Exercises to Suppress Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police in Minsk region practiced suppressing protests during the second day of command-and-staff exercises.<\/p>\n

On the orders of Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakou<\/strong>, the exercise scenarios were significantly altered to bring the conditions as close as possible to a real-life situation. Under the exercise scenario, the territory of military unit 3214 in Minsk was transformed into a separate densely populated settlement.<\/p>\n

Security forces simulated blocked routes and protests.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter entering the simulated city, the officers immediately began carrying out their assigned tasks. They encountered pockets of unrest: an aggressive crowd greeted them with a barrage of stones and bottles containing incendiary mixtures. Radicals coordinated via Telegram also blocked the roadway near a factory to paralyze its operations and prevent workers from reporting for their shifts. A public security monitoring group recorded a traffic collapse, a large gathering of people shouting destructive slogans, as well as the arson of a vehicle,\u201d<\/i> the Interior Ministry reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To detain the simulated protesters, the security forces used motorcycles, approaching from the rear.<\/p>\n

The exercises also included the release of hostages at a sports complex and assaults on a bus and a high-rise building.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Interior Ministry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photo: Interior Ministry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Police in Minsk region practiced suppressing protests during the second day of command-and-staff exercises. On the orders of Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakou, the exercise scenarios were significantly altered to bring the conditions as close as possible to a real-life situation. Under the exercise scenario, the territory of military unit 3214 in Minsk was transformed into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":571302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a8ef1906b97d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Interior Ministry Holds Exercises to Suppress Protests"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}