As Putin’s Partner, Prigozhin Was Always Willing to Do the Dirty Work
Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the mercenary leader of the Wagner Group, had earned the trust of Vladimir V. Putin. Then he staged a mutiny that rattled the Kremlin.
Belarus
Russia’s Z helicopter crashes in Belarus
A Russian Mi-24 Hind-type helicopter undergoing a routine training flight has crashed in Belarus. According to the Belarusian Hajun Project, the helicopter crashed near the M1 highway between Ivatsevichi and Baranovichi. The Ministry of Defense of Bela…
Belarus Is Fast Becoming a ‘Vassal State’ of Russia
Allowing Moscow to place tactical nuclear weapons on its soil is just the latest sign of its loss of sovereignty to the Kremlin, military experts and pro-democracy activists say.
NATO finalizing new Ukraine Council to draw Kyiv ‘politically closer’ to alliance
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg explicitly ruled out Ukraine being offered an invitation to join at the forthcoming Vilnius Summit, but reaffirmed that Russia does not “get a veto.”
NATO Sees No Change in Russia’s Nuclear Posture After Lukashenko’s Claims
The move described by the leader of Belarus would be another sign of worsening relations between Moscow and the West.
Belarus starts taking delivery of Russian nuclear weapons, Lukashenko says
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says the nuclear deployment in his country will act as a deterrent against potential aggressors.
Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine taking significant casualties and making slow progress towards Russian defence, say western officials – as it happened
Counteroffensive is still ‘going in the right direction’ says officials, in one of west’s first assessments of Ukrainian action launched on 4 JuneAt a glance: what we know on day 476 of the invasionDmitry Medvedev, long-term ally of Vladimir Putin and …
Ukrainian woman trying to reach godson detained in Russia and deported to Belarus
Olga Guruli was heading to occupied Kherson province to arrange repatriation of boy and his brotherUkraine war – latest news updatesA Ukrainian woman who travelled to Russia hoping to arrange the repatriation of her godson and his brother from Russian-…
‘I’m insanely thankful to the president’: how a Belarus dissident became an apologist for the regime
Raman Pratasevich was dragged off a plane and imprisoned two years ago. Now he praises the regime he used to denounceTwo years ago, Raman Pratasevich, a young Belarusian dissident blogger, was white-knuckled, begging a Ryanair flight crew not to make a…
Refugees seriously injured on razor-wire fence UK helped build to keep asylum seekers out of EU
Government accused of backing ‘inhumane’ policies as 16 people are badly hurt by barrier blocking entry via Poland from BelarusRefugees and asylum seekers have been seriously injured by a “dangerous” razor-wire fence that the UK helped to build to keep…