Poland said on Wednesday that NATO fighter jets shot down multiple Russian drones that entered its airspace, while Moscow is denying that its forces launched drones into the NATO country. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that a total of 19 drones entered...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that Belarus is hosting dozens of Russian nuclear weapons and is preparing to receive Russia's new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile, known as the Oreshnik. "I have deployed nuclear warheads here....
Belarus announced on Tuesday that its military was conducting a drill on the readiness of its forces to use tactical nuclear weapons, which Russia recently deployed to the country. The announcement came a day after Moscow said it would launch drills simulating the use...
NATO members Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are demanding Belarus expel Wagner fighters who went to the country after Yevgeny Prigozhin's short-lived mutiny in June. "We have asked the regime [of Belarusian President Alexander] Lukashenko to immediately expel...
Polish President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday that Russia has been moving nuclear weapons into Belarus and said the deployment changes the "security architecture" of the region. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the first Russian nukes started arriving in Belarus...
Polish officials said Wednesday that Warsaw will send an additional 2,000 troops to reinforce its border with Belarus as tensions between the two neighbors continue to rise. Maciej Wasik, a Polish deputy interior minister, said the deployment was double what the...
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki claimed on Thursday that Wagner fighters were deployed to Belarus in an attempt to "destabilize" bordering NATO countries, which the alliance refers to as its eastern flank. Morawiecki called the Russian mercenary force...
Poland on Tuesday said it was rushing more troops to its border with Belarus after accusing Minsk of violating its airspace with military helicopters, a claim Belarusian officials denied. According to Reuters, Poland's Defense Ministry said it was sending "additional...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed on Sunday that members of the Wagner group who are in Belarus want to go into Poland, comments that come amid heightened tensions between Warsaw and Minsk. According to the Russian news agency TASS, Lukashenko told...
Belarus announced Friday that members of the Wagner mercenary force were in the country training Belarusian soldiers. The Belarusian Defense Ministry said Wagner members were training soldiers in Osipovichi, a town about 60 miles southeast of Minsk. The ministry did...
