Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has fired three officials, including a governor, for keeping cows in poor conditions at a local farm.
Video aired by state television showed Lukashenko, an avid farmer himself, scolding the farm managers and the governor on a visit to the farm in the northern Mogilev region on Tuesday.
Lukashenko, who gave a sack of potatoes to Russian President Vladimir Putin last year, compared the conditions at the farm to those at a Nazi death camp.
The cows were shown walking in the manure with mud caked on their bodies.