The Latest Breaking News from Belarus

Planes inside Belarus are reported to have been seen being loaded up ready to assault the city

It comes as Ukrainian intelligence has learned from within Belarus that “special ops” troops have been spotted loading up planes for a major attack

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refused Russia's selection of Belarus as location for peace talks, but suggested alternatives

It came as the Kremlin said a Russian delegation has arrived in the Belarusian city of Homel for talks with Ukrainian officials, but Ukraine's leader said his country would not meet in Belarus after it was used as a staging ground for the invasion.

The Belarusian men's basketball team were due to fly in to Tyneside on Saturday but had their visas cancelled after the alarming events in Ukraine

Kremlin says official delegation arrived in Gomel for talks; Kyiv says it wants ‘only real negotiations’.

"Any other city would work for us ... in a country from whose territory rockets are not being fired."

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the world on Sunday to scrap Russia's voting power at the UN Security Council and said Russian actions verged on "genocide." "This is terror. They are going to bomb our Ukrainian cities even more, they are going to kill our children even more subtly.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko called on Kyiv on Sunday to sit down and hold talks with Russia so that Ukraine does not lose its statehood, Russia's RIA news agency reported.