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Special operations units with armored elements belonging to the Special Operations Command and the National Guard of Ukraine are deployed near Belarus’ state border, the press service of the Belarusian Defense Ministry quoted Chief of the Central Office, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Vladimir Kupriyanyuk as saying. Vladimir Kupriyanyuk said: “Today the Ukrainian army is unsuccessful in the battlefield and uses NATO weapons to deliver strikes against civilian...

Russia’s Tula Oblast and Belarus have established good cooperation but there is a significant potential to take it further, Governor of Tula Oblast Dmitry Milyaev told the media after a meeting with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Minsk on 5 November, BelTA  learned. Dmitry Milyaev stressed that partnership relations have been established between Belarus and Tula Oblast and that the cooperation is gradually gaining movement. The major industries that are the backbone of...

The CEC has registered an initiative group of citizens to collect voter signatures in support of the nomination of Sergei Bobrikov as a presidential candidate. This decision was made at a meeting of the CEC of Belarus on 4 November, BelTA has learned. Belarus' presidential election is scheduled for 26 January 2025. Written by  belta.by

Latvia will be able to confiscate cars with Belarusian license plates starting from 1 November after the ban on Belarus-registered cars entered into force in the neighboring country, BelTA learned from the State Customs Committee. The State Customs Committee recalled that in September the Latvian parliament passed an amendment to the Law on Road Traffic obliging owners of Belarus-registered cars to either take them out of the country or re-register them by 31 October. Otherwise, the...

Belarus and Ryazan Oblast of Russia intend to increase mutual trade to $500 million, including through high-tech products. This agreement was reached during a meeting between Ambassador of Belarus to Russia Aleksandr Rogozhnik and Governor of Ryazan Oblast Pavel Malkov in Ryazan on 29 October, BelTA has learned. "Our mutual trade is growing at a good pace in high-tech products, in particular, microelectronics. This is good news because the transition to high-tech goods is a brand new level...

Belarus hosted 6,524 European visitors as part of the visa-waiver program program over past week, BelTA learned from the State Border Committee.