The self-proclaimed President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, stated that Belarusian peacekeepers could supposedly ensure normal relations between Ukraine and Russia. This could be an attempt to improve Lukashenko's image,

Over the past year, we recorded about 350 flights of unmanned aerial vehicles on the border with Ukraine, official representative of Belarus’ State Border Committee Anton Bychkovsky told the media.

The head of state gave the corresponding instruction at the polling station on 26 January. Thus, foreign journalists got an opportunity to see with their own eyes the situation on the border between Belarus and Ukraine.

Documents obtained by OCCRP and analyzed by BIC helped reveal how Belarus’s Integral continues to produce and supply microchips for Russian military industrial complex using imported Western components despite sanctions.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years of sweeping repressions.

The European Commission on Tuesday proposed slapping tariffs on additional farm imports from Russia and its ally Belarus -- while continuing to spare agricultural goods and fertiliser bound for third countries.

Belarusians are voting in a closely-managed presidential election that is all but certain to extend the one-man rule of Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994 and Europe’s longest-serving leader.

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western countries have denounced as a sham.

Living 30 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, Belarusian retiree Sergei Budyukhin says the war on the other side of the frontier never feels far away.

Russia claims to have captured the strategically important Ukrainian town of Velyka Novosilka, as Vladimir Putin’s forces continue their push in the Donetsk region.A spokesperson for Ukraine’s eastern forces confirmed on Monday that Russian troops had entered the town,

Early voting took place from Jan. 21 to Jan. 25, during which 41.81% of voters participated, according to the Central Election Commission of Belarus. In addition to Alexander Lukashenko, four other candidates have been registered for the election.