Real Madrid boss Bernd Schuster declared his admiration for the Belarussian, but the club did not make a formal offer.

And when the train stopped at the border town of Brest, a gang of Belarussian women jumped on with baskets of food and drink.

Belarussian interior ministry soldier has a masonry block on his chest smashed by a flaming hammer as part of Maslenitsa celebrations in Minsk.