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Russia launches nuclear war games on Europe’s doorstep as Nato issues stark warning

ANALYSIS: Russia’s massive war games in Belarus are an attempt to regain military initiative by threatening armageddon, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

The Independent UK

Russia delivers nuclear warheads to Belarus as NATO tensions spike

Russia has delivered nuclear munitions ‌to field storage facilities in Belarus as part of major nuclear drills amid tensions with European NATO members sparked by drone incursions in the Baltic.

Euronews

Russia moves nuclear weapons into Belarus as part of major tests

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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump dispatches 5,000 troops to Poland as Nato jets scrambled over Baltics

Trump had threatened to withdraw troops from Europe earlier this month

The Independent UK

Drone alert has Lithuania's capital rushing to shelters

Lithuanians have been told to take shelter following drone activity near the border, in the latest in a series of similar incidents in NATO territory.

AAP

Residents of Lithuania's capital told to shelter as drone alarm underlines NATO's eastern jitters

Lithuania's president and prime minister were taken to safe locations Wednesday after a suspected drone was detected near the Belarus border

The Independent UK

Russian threats against Baltics ‘unacceptable’ and danger to ‘our entire union’, EU’s von der Leyen says - as it happened

Lithuanian foreign minister thanks European Commission president for her ‘strong message of solidarity’

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Lithuania shuts Vilnius airport; suspends flights due to drone warning

Lithuania issued an 'air danger' warning and suspended airport traffic Wednesday, urging citizens to seek shelter due to fears of airspace violations. The alert followed reports of a drone from neighboring Belarus heading towards Lithuania. This incident occurs amidst a backdrop of recent airspace incursions in the Baltic region.

The Economic Times

Russia begins three days of nuclear drills

Russia has commenced a three-day nuclear weapons exercise across its territory. The drills involve over 65,000 soldiers and extensive military equipment. This exercise includes missile launches and participation from aircraft, ships, and submarines. The drills also extend to joint training with Belarus. President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to visit China…

The Economic Times

US warns Russia after Moscow threatens Latvia – as it happened

Latvia’s UN representative says she has little time for Russia’s ‘pure fiction and pure lies’ as row over drones escalates

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin arrives in China with ‘serious expectations’ for Xi summit

'Old friends' Xi and Putin to meet over tea, enjoy a banquet and sign a series of bilateral commitments

The Independent UK

Ukraine war briefing: Chinese ship hit on way in to Odesa port, says Zelenskyy

Civilian vessels under Russian attack in Black Sea; Kyiv condemns Belarus nuclear drills as threat to Nato and global security. What we know on day 1,546

The Guardian - AU

Belarus stages nuclear drills with Russia as Kyiv warns of new offensive

Russia and Belarus conducted joint nuclear exercises on Monday as Kyiv warned Moscow was preparing a new offensive from Belarusian territory against Ukraine or NATO.

Euronews

Belarus launches joint drills with Russia to practice nuclear weapons use

Belarus says it has launched joint drills with Russia to practice the use of nuclear weapons that Moscow has deployed on the territory of its neighbor and ally

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Euronews

Ukraine and Russia swap 205 prisoners of war each in US-brokered exchange

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram most of the Ukrainians handed over had been in Russian captivity since 2022.

Euronews

IOC lifts Olympic ban on Belarus' athletes but Russians still barred from competiton

The IOC executive board released a statement saying that it "no longer recommends any restrictions on the participation of Belarusian athletes, including teams."

TechRadar

Kasperky warns popular Daemon Tools app backdoored by hackers to target specific victims

A two-stage process targets government, science, and retail in Russia, Belarus, and Thailand.

The Independent UK

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Zelensky meets Starmer as UK to enter talks to join £78bn EU loan scheme for Kyiv

Zelensky says Ukraine's military successfully hit Russia's Primorsk ⁠port

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The Conversation

40 years later, Russia is still silencing the voices of Chernobyl

In June 2018 I had the opportunity to visit Minsk, the capital of Belarus. In a large bookshop in the city centre – beneath the inquisitorial gaze of the ever-present portraits of the dictator Alexander Lukashenko – I asked the bookseller for one of the volumes of Svetlana Alexievich’s collected…

The Guardian - UK

Journalist Andrzej Poczobut freed from prison in Belarus in US-brokered swap deal

Sakharov prize winner was given eight-year sentence after process widely condemned as politically motivated

Euronews

Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut freed from Belarusian jail, officials say

Poczobut, a correspondent for the influential Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, was serving eight years in prison in a case condemned as politically motivated.

The Guardian - UK

‘The doorbell went at 5am. Six masked men were outside’: Belarus Free Theatre bring totalitarian terror to the Venice Biennale

They’ve been imprisoned, tortured and spied upon. Now dissidents from Europe’s last dictatorship are bringing the sights, sounds, smells and even tastes of brutal repression to the world’s biggest festival of art

TechRadar

"SIM-Farm-as-a-Service": How a Belarus-based network hijacked UK and US telcos to enable global fraud

Investigation maps 94 SIM farm deployments connected to 35 mobile carriers including major UK and US networks.

The Conversation

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, its legacy still resonates

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens.

Euronews

UN experts warn of 'deeply alarming detention practices' in Belarus' prison system

There are more than 1,100 political prisoners in Belarusian jails, many arrested after a disputed 2020 election that triggered widespread protests.

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