Alexander Lukashenko

A week on from the start of Russia’s ‘special military operation’, what does it all mean?

The three countries see themselves as the long-suffering front line of Russian disinformation, cyber attacks and political interference

EU leaders criticise ‘blatant violation of international law’ following Putin move

Russian troops to stay on amid ‘whiff of gunpowder’, Belarusian defence chief says

Russian president observes missile drills with Belrusian leader Lukashenko

US says Russia still massing troops near Ukraine and seeking ‘pretext to justify invasion’

An Irish comedian can’t find the funnies in Boris Johnson

Russia and Belarus launch major military drills as West urges Kremlin to talk peace

French president reiterates Putin told him he had no intention of escalating conflict

By placing troops in breakaway regions of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, Putin is retaining a Russian blocking stake in states that want to join the EU and Nato.

Diversion manufactured to allow Belarusian forces to arrest journalist, indictment says

Sergei Tikhanovsky, partner of opposition leader, found guilty of organising mass unrest

Beijing claims the Baltic state’s decision is a challenge to its ‘one China’ policy

Belarusian leader tells BBC refugees ‘not coming to my country, they’re going to yours’

Pressure begins to ease at border as migrants brought to Belarusian-run warehouse

In the News: How Belarus engineered the migrant crisis playing out on the EU’s border

Bialystok Letter: ‘Please don’t think we all enjoy this,’ a young Polish officer says

Tensions rise at border as guards use water cannons against restive crowds

Lukashenko to hold second call with Merkel amid migrant crisis

Belarus regime has flown in 18,000 people from Middle East to provoke tensions, says Coveney

Some 4,000 people are sitting in the no-man’s land between Poland and Ukraine

Seán Binder faces trial for helping migrants survive dangerous sea crossing to Lesbos

Whereas Brussels once denounced states for building fences, it now helps police them

An Iraqi says Belarusian police became aggressive once they got to the EU border

Leaders of opposing countries accuse Putin and EU respectively of orchestrating crisis

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is accused by EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen of “instrumentalising refugees” as a weapon

Lithuania considers state of emergency for Belarusian border area after surge in illegal crossing attempts

Group of member states call for EU cash for barbed wire and fencing to halt migrants

Migrants transported to EU borders in retaliation to sanctions on Minsk

Kremlin insists drills involving 200,000 troops are not a threat to any state

Borders should be secured and Afghan people helped to stay in the region, states agree

Attitudes harden ahead of expected increase of arrivals from Afghanistan

Warsaw and Baltic states say Minsk regime must take responsibility for influx

Poland and Baltic states building fences to block ‘weaponised’ migration via Minsk

Minsk regime accused of using thousands of migrants to destabilise EU neighbours

Lukashenko isolated but defiant a year after rigged elections sparked huge protests

Pro-democracy movement in Belarus defiant as Lukashenko regime jails and exiles critics

The order to send sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya home came from ‘high up’

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya says call from grandmother key in decision not to return home

Belarusian Olympian ‘happy to be in safety’ in Poland after refusing to go home