The Latest Breaking News from Alexander Lukashenko

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…

The European Union has imposed sanctions on several Belarus police, justice and prison officials over the crackdown on anti-government activists that started three years ago

The mercenaries have been training Belarusian forces close to the Polish border in recent weeks

Polish and Lithuanian leaders have held an urgent meeting in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad

Fighters from the group are training Belarusian troops near the border with Nato member Poland

Ms Zelenska warned that her country is in desperate need of ‘faster’ support to enable it to fight Vladimir Putin’s troops

Sometime this summer, if President Vladimir Putin can be believed, Russia moved some of its short-range nuclear weapons into Belarus, closer to Ukraine and onto the doorstep of NATO’s members in Central and Eastern Europe

These are the main developments as the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its 518th day.

Fighters from the group are training Belarusian troops near the border with Nato member Poland

Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko reportedly remarked – suppposedly in a joking tone – during a recent meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg that Wagner mercenaries are eager to move into Poland.

Attacks also reported in other northern and central regions of Ukraine, Kyiv says