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Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says US and NATO risk ‘a situation of direct armed confrontation of nuclear powers’.

Belarus would be willing to use nuclear weapons in the face of foreign “aggression”, said the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko.

Zelenskiy fires regional military recruitment chiefs in anti-corruption drive; Russia gains ground around north-east town of Kupiansk

From Bucha to the battle for Bakhmut, we track Wagner’s bloody role in Vladimir Putin’s invasion

Poland's defence minister said on Thursday the country planned to massively increase its forces guarding the border with Belarus, amid concerns about migrants trying to enter the EU without permission and potential threats from Wagner mercenaries.

Poland is sending twice as many troops as expected to reinforce its border after hundreds of Wagner mercenaries flooded into Belarus.

From Bucha to the battle for Bakhmut, we track Wagner’s bloody role in Vladimir Putin’s invasion

Putin’s close ally Lukashenko has vowed not to enter war unless Belarus is attacked by Ukraine

Reports from the front lines of the various conflict zones reveal daily just how difficult Ukraine is finding its summer counter-offensive. Russia has had months to build defensive fortifications and Ukrainian troops are having to fight their way through territory which – according to Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s…