Russia is de facto annexing Belarus. Although this process is not yet complete, it has reached a stage where the Kremlin can threaten NATO's eastern countries and Ukraine through its satellite, warns the Institute for the Study of War.
In 2024, more than 40 provocations were committed on the border of Belarus from Ukraine. Reported in The State Border Committee of the Republic.
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Sergei Shoigu says Nato has been rehearsing offensive as well as defensive scenarios close to Russia and Belarus.
Belarus under Lukashenko has become embroiled in the battle between NATO-backed Western Europe and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Meanwhile, Belarus’ record on human rights – and its complicity in Russia’s war in Ukraine – have led to extensive sanctions and diplomatic isolation of the Eastern European nation, worsening the life of its people.
With many of his political opponents either jailed or exiled abroad, Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed “Europe’s last dictator,” is all but certain to add a seventh term.
Belarus as a Launchpad for Attacks on NATO States" took place. The discussion was organized by the International Center for Countering Russian Aggression in collaboration with the "For the Decolonization and Dismantling of the Russian Empire" the expert group from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine’s inter-factional MPs' association.
Lukashenko says Belarus is hosting dozens of Russian tactical nuclear weapons. Their deployment extends Russia’s capability to target Ukraine and NATO allies in Europe. He also said Belarus will ...
MINSK - Reclusive Moscow-allied Belarus will hold a presidential election on Jan 26, with President Alexander Lukashenko set to cruise through to victory unchallenged for a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule. Mr Lukashenko – a 70-year-old former collective farm boss – has been in power in Belarus since 1994.
The military alliance has been increasing its forces along its eastern flank with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, deploying thousands of troops and equipment
The West must not recognise “sham” Belarusian elections on Sunday that will inevitably extend the 31-year rule of dictator Alexander Lukashenko, or sacrifice the country to Russia amid efforts to end the war in neighbouring Ukraine, its exiled pro-democracy leader has said.
Russian, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko casts himself as a plain-spoken strongman and "president of the ordinary people".