The Latest Breaking News from Belarus

This is the first tennis tournament in which Russian and Belarusian players have been barred from competing.

Daniil Medvedev and Aryna Sabalenka are among those affected

Russian and Belarusian players have been banned from Wimbledon and all other grass-court events in Britain this summer in response to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine

Wimbledon has banned all Russian and Belarusian players from this summer’s Championships, due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The report in sports industry news site Sportico said it was unclear whether players from Belarus would also be banned

Volodymyr Khropun and Yulia Ivannikova-Katsemon say they were helping people flee villages on the front line in northern Ukraine when they were detained by Russian soldiers over two days in March.

Vitaliy Semenets’ Bluetooth headphones were looted from his home in Hostomel, near Kyiv, and he has since tracked them to Belarus and Russia

Russia is committed to compelling Ukraine to abandon its Euro-Atlantic orientation and asserting its own regional dominance, even as Moscow’s operational focus has shifted to the east of its neighboring country, British military intelligence said on Sunday. Russian forces were continuing to redeploy combat and support equipment from Belarus towards…

Why are volunteers on the Ukrainian border treated as heroes while those helping families cross from Belarus face criminal charges?

The U.S. Commerce Department on Thursday confirmed it had identified seven Boeing 737 Planes operated by Belarusian national carrier Belavia that are in apparent violation of U.S. export controls.

Large convoys of military equipment have been filmed in Russia and Belarus in recent days. Amateur videos analysed and verified by the FRANCE 24 Observers team show that some of these military reinforcements are heading for the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, towards the pro-Russian self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and…