The Latest Breaking News from Minsk

More than a half-million Belarusians have fled their country since 2020 as the authoritarian government cracked down its critics

Prosecutors in Poland say they have charged three Belarusian officials with using a ruse to divert a Poland-registered plane and thus violating the freedom of 132 people on board when in 2021 they ordered the plane carrying a dissident blogger to land in Minsk, leading to the arrest of Raman…

When a passenger plane was forced to land in Minsk in 2021, one man screamed: ‘They’ll kill me’. Many of his countrymen and women now realise they are also not safe, even in exile

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted a meeting with his Belarusian ally, who referred to this week’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and suggested that Minsk could join Moscow’s efforts to revive an old alliance with Pyongyang

Lithuania says it will issue special travel documents to Belarusian citizens in the Baltic country who were stripped of the right to get new passports by Minsk

NATO members Poland and the Baltic states say they will seal off their borders with Russia’s ally Belarus if there are any military incidents or a massive migrant push by Minsk

Any attempt to breach Ukraine’s northern border would make no logistical sense, experts tell The Independent

At least two people have been killed and more injured after a Russian rocket attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, near Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday. Follow our live blog for the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris…

Moscow’s mayor says two ‘combat drones’ shot down in the Domodedovo and Minsk Highway areas while en route to Moscow.