Belarus
Exclusive-India could buy potash from Belarus in rupees as sanctions hit Minsk-sources
By Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) - India plans to buy 1 million tonnes of potash from Belarus in the first such bilateral deal between the two countries after sanctions crippled…
Belarus diverts potash supplies from Lithuania to Russia, says PM
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarus has diverted potash shipments from Lithuania's Klaipeda port to Russian ports after Vilnius decided to halt the use of its railway for Belarus exports of the…
Russia holds military drills before four-way Ukraine talks in Paris
By Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia held military drills on Wednesday and deployed more forces and fighter jets to Belarus for exercises next month as officials prepared to sit…
Belarus withheld information from Ryanair diversion probe, U.N. says
By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - A United Nations report into the forced diversion of a Ryanair jetliner last year has found that a bomb threat that drew the plane…
Factbox-Russian military drills in Belarus create new threats for Ukraine
By Tom Balmforth MOSCOW (Reuters) - Joint military exercises https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-belarus-plan-joint-military-drills-february-lukashenko-2022-01-17 between Russia and Belarus in the coming weeks will provide Russian President Vladimir Putin with new options if he decides…
Ukraine suspects group linked to Belarus intelligence over cyberattack
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Kyiv believes a hacker group linked to Belarusian intelligence carried out a cyberattack https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/expect-worst-ukraine-hit-by-cyberattack-russia-moves-more-troops-2022-01-14 that hit Ukrainian government websites this week and used malware similar…
Lithuania will not extend state of emergency at Belarus border
VILNIUS (Reuters) - The Lithuanian government on Wednesday decided against extending a state of emergency along the country's border with Belarus and at camps hosting migrants who had arrived from…
U.S. helps Ukraine to strengthen its border with Russia, Belarus
KYIV (Reuters) - The United States will finance projects including surveillance and monitoring equipment to strengthen Ukraine's borders with Russia and Belarus, amid continuing escalation with Moscow, Ukraine's border service…
Lithuania moves towards terminating Belarus potash transportation agreement
VILNIUS (Reuters) - A Lithuanian government commission said on Tuesday an agreement signed by the state-run railway in 2018 to transport potash from sanctions-hit Belarus goes against national security interests,…
U.N. urges Belarus, Poland to address refugees’ ‘dire conditions’
By Paul Carrel GENEVA (Reuters) - Belarus and Poland are pushing refugees back and forth across their border and leaving them with little if any food, clean water or shelter,…
Russia sends strategic bombers to help patrol Belarus borders
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has sent long-range strategic Tu-22M3 bombers to join patrols of air space along the western borders of ally Belarus, the Belarusian defence ministry said on Saturday.…
As Iraqi and Syrian migrants leave Belarus, some are afraid to go home
By Charlotte Bruneau SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Exhausted after several failed attempts to enter Poland amid freezing temperatures, Saeed Jundi and his family of Iraqi Yazidis had just made it…
