Lithuania’s State Border Guard Service accused Belarusian border guards of illegally crossing the border between Lithuania and Belarus on Tuesday, during an attempt to drive a group of 35 Iraqi… Continue reading "Lithuania Accuses Belarus Border Guards Of Illegal Border Crossing"
A Hamas senior official has denied the Belarusian government’s claims that the Gazan organization had sent a bomb threat that supposedly forced Ryanair Flight FR4978 to divert to Minsk. Speaking… Continue reading "Hamas Denies Belarusian “Bomb Threat” As EU Moves Towards Sanctions"
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary today described the Sunday forced diversion of Ryanair Flight FR4978 by the Belarussian Air Force as an act of “state-sponsored hijacking”. In an appearance on the… Continue reading "Ryanair CEO Accuses Belarus Of Hijacking Airliner As Minsk Claims “Hamas Bomb Threat”"
Since the presidential election of the 9 August, the turmoil within Belarus increased exponentially. Major protests continue to take place in Minsk, Grodno, Brest, Vitebsk and other major towns and… Continue reading "Belarus Mobilizes its Army on the Polish Border"
Belarusian law enforcement claims that members of the Russian Wagner PMC are in Belarus to disrupt the upcoming Belarusian presidential elections on 8 August, following an early morning raid on… Continue reading "Belarus Alleges Russian Plot To Disrupt Elections"
Russian and Belarusian airborne forces participated in a joint tactical exercise in Western Russia starting on 18th February through to the 20th. The exercise was held at the Strugi Krasnyye… Continue reading "Paratroopers from Belarus and Russia Complete Joint Military Exercise"
On 13 November, the Belarusian Ministry of Defence announced that the first two Sukhoi Su-30SM (NATO reporting name Flanker-H) multirole aircraft it had purchased from Russia had arrived at the… Continue reading "First Belarusian Su-30SMs Delivered"
After a meeting with the President of Belarus, Roman Golovchenko, the chairman of the State Military Industrial Committee of the Republic of Belarus, gave an interview to a local news… Continue reading "Belarus to Build a New Small Arms and Ammunition Plant"
Armed Forces of the Eastern European country of Belarus have recently been experimenting with arming commercial quad-copter drones with disposable RPG-26 launchers in an effort to use the drones as… Continue reading "Tankers Beware: Belarus Puts RPG-26 Anti-Armor Rockets on Drones"
On 19 August, Lithuania broke ground on the largest military base in its history for permanently deploying the German armed forces military and civilian personnel (Bundeswehr). The strategic town of… Continue reading "Lithuania Has Started Construction of Military Base Planned To House Thousands Of German Soldiers"