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Focused Russian attack on Ukraine seen as more likely than full-scale invasion

Officials and experts say several elements missing for full-scale invasion despite recent troop movements

The Guardian - UK

Russia holds military drills before four-way Ukraine talks in Paris

Russia held military drills on Wednesday and deployed more forces and fighter jets to Belarus for exercises next month as officials prepared to sit down for four-way talks in Paris on the conflict in east Ukraine.

Reuters

Russia moves elite paratroopers to Ukraine border amid fears of assault on Kiev

Russian paratroopers and equipment have been seen moving west towards the potential Ukraine war zone which analysers agree looks "ominous" with the Kremlin still adamant it's simply performing exercises

Daily Mirror

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‘Cyberpartisans’ hack Belarusian railway to disrupt Russian buildup

Activists claim they could paralyse trains moving Russian forces for potential attack on Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Latest Russia-Ukraine updates: US says Putin may face sanctions

Russia-Ukraine tensions news from January 25: Biden says NATO has ‘no intention’ of sending forces to Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Belarus hacktivists target railway in anti-Russia effort

A Belarusian hacktivist group says it has launched a limited cyberattack on the national railway company, aimed at impeding the movement of Russian troops and freight inside the Moscow-allied country

The Independent UK

VIDEO: Locked And Loaded: Russia Transports S-400 Missile Systems To Belarus Amid Tensions

Moscow sends anti-aircraft hardware 4,000 miles to allies in Belarus as tensions rise with the West.

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Ukraine crisis: Hundreds of military trains with Russian troops deployed as war fears grow

The Mirror has learned as many as 30 train loads of Moscow’s troops have entered Belarus in the past week - with a staggering 200 scheduled for the next few days

Daily Mirror

Analysis: Crisis in Ukraine a showdown of two world views

The crisis in Ukraine is hardly going away

The Independent UK

Russian ships, tanks and troops on the move to Ukraine as peace talks stall

With negotiations deadlocked, Moscow is continuing to build up its military forces for a possible invasion

The Guardian - UK

Australian Open | Sabalenka overcomes serving issues to see off Vondrousova

The Belarusian, who has won 10 WTA singles titles, back from a set down to defeat her opponent 4-6, 6-3, 6-1

The Hindu

"Belarusian Government Officials Charged With Aircraft Piracy for Diverting … Flight … to Arrest Dissident Journalist"

Arrr! Or, as we say in the Cyrillosphere, Аррр!

Reason

US charges Belarus officials with piracy over forced landing of Ryanair plane

Alexander Lukashenko says the country did not intercept, re-route or force the landing of a Ryanair plane last year

The Independent UK

Russia to flex muscles with navy drills involving all its fleets

The sweeping set of January-February exercises comes during a standoff with the West over NATO enlargement.

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Latest Ukraine updates: Russia, US voice hope for diplomacy

Ukraine tensions news from January 21: Lavrov and Blinken conclude Geneva talks aimed at defusing tensions.

Reuters

Russia sends two S-400 battalions to Belarus for drills - Interfax

Russia is sending two battalions of S-400 surface-to-air missile systems to Belarus to join military drills there next month, the Interfax news agency said on Friday, at a time of acute tensions with the West over neighbouring Ukraine.

Daily Mirror

Belarus officials charged with aircraft piracy over diverted Ryanair flight

The US Department of Justice has charged four Belarusian government officials with aircraft piracy for allegedly diverting a Ryanair flight in order to arrest journalist Roman Protasevich

Axios

U.S. charges 4 Belarus officials with air piracy in journalist's arrest

The DOJ says officials fabricated a bomb threat aboard an aircraft carrying the journalist Raman Pratasevich.

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U.S. charges Belarus officials with aircraft piracy over diverted Ryanair flight

Four Belarusian government officials have been charged in the United States with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last May to arrest a dissident Belarusian journalist who was on board, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Four Belarusian officials face aircraft piracy charges

U.S. prosecutors have charged four Belarusian government officials with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last year to arrest an opposition journalist

The Independent UK

‘Code red’: How a Ryanair flight with a dissident on board was diverted to Minsk

From the evacuation that took 50 minutes to a sequence of mysterious emails, UN report finds many questions unanswered by the Belarus authorities, writes Simon Calder

The Hindu

What Vladimir Putin really wants

The West cannot ignore a determined Russian President any more as Moscow prepares for its next act — on Ukraine

Reuters

Belarus withheld information from Ryanair diversion probe, U.N. says

A United Nations report into the forced diversion of a Ryanair jetliner last year has found that a bomb threat that drew the plane to Minsk was "deliberately false" and that Belarus withheld crucial information from its fact-finding team.

Wales Online

Minister warns tens of thousands could die in conflict with Russia

"What stands in front of us, what could be weeks away, is the first peer-on-peer, industrialised, digitised, top-tier army against top-tier army war that’s been on this continent for generations."

Reuters

Lithuania says Russian troops in Belarus pose "direct threat"

Russian troops arriving in Belarus for what Moscow and Minsk say will be joint military exercises are a direct threat to NATO member Lithuania, and could prompt Washington to station more troops in the region, Lithuania's defence minister said.

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