World Athletics president Lord Coe revealed a trip to Ukraine reaffirmed his stance that the governing body remains right to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from its competitions. Coe, who also met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, praised the resilience of athletes he met at the country’s national championships, which also served as […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A special commission tasked with investigating Russian and Belarusian influence in Poland was beginning its work on Wednesday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced. At a news conference in Warsaw, Tusk and other officials described the commission as a non-partisan body of experts whose aim is to protect national security. Its work […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited his Belarusian counterpart and close ally for talks Friday in Minsk, after which he questioned whether Volodymyr Zelenskyy has the legitimacy to negotiate on Ukraine’s behalf. Russia is willing to hold talks about the war in Ukraine, Putin said, but Zelenskyy’s five-year term in office was […]
A NASA astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut and the first female Belarusian in space will leave the space station late tonight (April 5), and you can watch the action live. NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus will leave the International Space Station (ISS) at 11:54 p.m. EDT […]
For the first time, a spacecraft has lifted off with a flight attendant aboard, but there will be no drink service during the flight. Marina Vasilevskaya, who also served as a flight instructor for Belavia Airlines in her home country of Belarus, traded her attendant uniform for a Russian Sokol pressure suit to become the […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A young Belarusian woman who died after being attacked and raped in central Warsaw has been laid to rest Thursday, with both loved ones and strangers turning out to mourn the loss of a young woman who escaped a difficult family life to seek a better future. Lizaveta Hertsen, 25, was […]
Belarusian Defence Minister Viktor Khrenin has claimed that Ukraine has supposedly deployed a military formation of “112,000 to 114,000 soldiers” on the border with Belarus. Khrenin has vowed to shoot down any NATO aircraft “without warning” should they violate Belarusian airspace. Source: Khrenin in an interview with Kremlin-aligned Russian news channel Rossiya 24 (Russia 24) […]
Over the past month, the Belarusian secret police (KGB) has begun increasingly targeting Ukrainians living in the country, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center reported on Feb. 7. While not entering into an open war with Kyiv, Belarus has been helping Russia in the war against Ukraine since the full-scale invasion, in particular by deploying Russian equipment […]
Alexander Lukashenko, self-proclaimed President of Belarus, has claimed at the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ukraine and Baltic countries “could cooperate with Russia instead of ‘seeking better life abroad’”. Source: Lukashenko and Putin at the meeting in St. Petersburg, as reported by the Pul pervogo Telegram-channel and the Russian Interfax Quote: “I thought […]
Valery Revenko, head of the Department of International Military Cooperation of the Belarusian Defence Ministry, complained that Minsk had received neither a notice about the largest NATO exercise since the Cold War nor an invitation to attend. Source: European Pravda Details: In a series of posts on Twitter (X) on 23 January, Revenko criticised “individual […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarus state television reported Wednesday that authorities sent a recently arrived group of Ukrainian children from occupied Ukraine to train with the Belarusian military to learn how to evacuate in the event of a fire. Ukraine and the Belarusian opposition allege that Russian ally Belarus is engaging in the illegal transfer […]
Lithuania has enforced a ban on empty freight transport crossing its borders with Belarus and Russia, Interfax-Ukraine reported. This prohibition aligns with European Union regulations preventing the export of automotive equipment to Russia and Belarus and the transit of such equipment through Russia. Read also: Polish truckers block border with Ukraine to grumble about Ukraine’s […]