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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.

Al Jazeera

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.

Al Jazeera

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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.

Reuters

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

Daily Mirror

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.

Axios

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.

Reuters

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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 Independent UK

What Vladimir Putin really wants

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

The Hindu

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.

Reuters

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."

Wales Online

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.

Reuters

U.S. warns Russia may use joint military exercises with Belarus to attack Ukraine

Troops in Belarus could enhance Russia's ability to topple the Ukrainian government in Kyiv.

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Reuters

Factbox-Russian military drills in Belarus create new threats for Ukraine

Joint military exercises between Russia and Belarus in the coming weeks will provide Russian President Vladimir Putin with new options if he decides to attack Ukraine and will further stretch that country's defences, military analysts say.

The Guardian - US

US and Russia to hold talks on Ukraine in potential sign ‘diplomacy is not dead’

US secretary of state Tony Blinken to meet with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov amid fears of Russian attack on Ukraine

The Independent UK

Russia moves more troops westward amid Ukraine tensions

Russian officials say Moscow is sending an unspecified number of troops from the country’s far east to Belarus for major joint drills

Reuters

Russia, Belarus to rehearse repelling external attack in joint drills

Russia and Belarus will rehearse repelling an external attack when they hold joint military drills in Belarus next month, both sides said on Tuesday, at a time of acute tensions with the West over neighbouring Ukraine.

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The Guardian - UK

Russia moves troops to Belarus for joint exercises near Ukraine border

Move likely to stoke invasion fears as war games also planned near borders of Nato members Poland and Lithuania

Reuters

Russian forces arrive in Belarus for joint military drills

Russian military forces and hardware began arriving in ex-Soviet Belarus for joint drills starting in February, Minsk said on Monday, amid soaring tensions between East and West over Ukraine.

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