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Belarus leader tells opposition leaders: 'Repent and kneel'

Belarus’ authoritarian leader has advised exiled opposition activists to “come home, repent and kneel,” while repeating a vague promise to step down if the people “make the decision” for him

The Independent UK

UN declare bomb threat on Ryanair flight 'deliberately false'

The warning led to the aircraft being rerouted to Belarus, where journalist Roman Protasevitch and his partner Sofia Sapega were arrested

Irish Mirror

Macron reaffirms solidarity with Ukraine in call with Ukraine's leader

French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed France’s solidarity with Ukraine in a phone call Friday with President Volodymyr Zelensky amid tensions between Moscow and Kyiv. In an earlier phone call, Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on the need to “de-escalate" the situation. Follow Friday's events as they happened in…

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Latest Ukraine updates: Zelenskyy urges no ‘panic’ over tensions

Latest Ukraine news from January 28: President calls on the West to avoid creating ‘panic’ as Russia tensions simmer.

Al Jazeera

War only possible if Belarus or Russia attacked, says Lukashenko

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that Minsk had absolutely no interest in a war and that conflict would only break out if Belarus or its close ally Russia were directly attacked.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin intensifies war games as West refuses to ban Ukraine from joining NATO

Video footage shows thousands of military tanks and missiles arriving in Belarus for combat drills sparking fears of an invasion of Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Poland starts building wall through protected forest at Belarus border

Barrier will stretch for almost half the length of the border and cost 10 times migration department’s budget

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Poland starts building metal wall on border with Belarus

Construction workers with heavy machinery are digging on Poland's border with Belarus as work has started on a wall intended to block migrants pushed by Belarus, in what the European Union calls a “hybrid attack,” from crossing illegally into EU territory

The Independent UK

Ukraine crisis: From Belarus to Japan, where do countries stand?

A look at how world powers are responding to the rapidly escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Russian forces will leave Belarus once drills are over, Minsk says

Russian military forces will leave Belarus once joint exercises between the two ex-Soviet countries are over next month, the Belarusian Ministry of Defence said on Thursday.

Reuters

Ukraine crisis: Russia ‘not optimistic’ but will keep talking with west – as it happened

Russian president Vladimir Putin is being briefed on a US paper reaffirming support for Ukraine’s right to pursue Nato membership

The Guardian - UK

Russia has reached the point of no return in its conflict with Ukraine

The international crisis created by Russia over NATO’s eastern expansion has brought Europe to its most critical moment since the dissolution of the state of Yugoslavia in the early 1980s.

The Conversation

Focused Russian attack on Ukraine seen as more likely than full-scale invasion

Officials and experts say several elements missing for full-scale invasion despite recent troop movements

The Guardian - UK

Russia holds military drills before four-way Ukraine talks in Paris

Russia held military drills on Wednesday and deployed more forces and fighter jets to Belarus for exercises next month as officials prepared to sit down for four-way talks in Paris on the conflict in east Ukraine.

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Daily Mirror

Russia moves elite paratroopers to Ukraine border amid fears of assault on Kiev

Russian paratroopers and equipment have been seen moving west towards the potential Ukraine war zone which analysers agree looks "ominous" with the Kremlin still adamant it's simply performing exercises

The Guardian - UK

‘Cyberpartisans’ hack Belarusian railway to disrupt Russian buildup

Activists claim they could paralyse trains moving Russian forces for potential attack on Ukraine

Al Jazeera

Latest Russia-Ukraine updates: US says Putin may face sanctions

Russia-Ukraine tensions news from January 25: Biden says NATO has ‘no intention’ of sending forces to Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Belarus hacktivists target railway in anti-Russia effort

A Belarusian hacktivist group says it has launched a limited cyberattack on the national railway company, aimed at impeding the movement of Russian troops and freight inside the Moscow-allied country

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VIDEO: Locked And Loaded: Russia Transports S-400 Missile Systems To Belarus Amid Tensions

Moscow sends anti-aircraft hardware 4,000 miles to allies in Belarus as tensions rise with the West.

Daily Mirror

Ukraine crisis: Hundreds of military trains with Russian troops deployed as war fears grow

The Mirror has learned as many as 30 train loads of Moscow’s troops have entered Belarus in the past week - with a staggering 200 scheduled for the next few days

The Independent UK

Analysis: Crisis in Ukraine a showdown of two world views

The crisis in Ukraine is hardly going away

The Guardian - UK

Russian ships, tanks and troops on the move to Ukraine as peace talks stall

With negotiations deadlocked, Moscow is continuing to build up its military forces for a possible invasion

The Hindu

Australian Open | Sabalenka overcomes serving issues to see off Vondrousova

The Belarusian, who has won 10 WTA singles titles, back from a set down to defeat her opponent 4-6, 6-3, 6-1

Reason

"Belarusian Government Officials Charged With Aircraft Piracy for Diverting … Flight … to Arrest Dissident Journalist"

Arrr! Or, as we say in the Cyrillosphere, Аррр!

The Independent UK

US charges Belarus officials with piracy over forced landing of Ryanair plane

Alexander Lukashenko says the country did not intercept, re-route or force the landing of a Ryanair plane last year

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