Belarus

Belarus

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg, Russia July 13, 2021. Photo: Reuters

Belarus leader, in U-Turn, says annexed Crimea is legally Russian

Belarus is a close ally of Russia, but did not recognise the peninsula as Russian after Moscow seized the territory

Belarusian servicemen stand next to a barrier as migrants jostle to receive food outside the transport and logistics centre near the Belarusian-Polish border in the Grodno region, Belarus November 21, 2021. Photo :Reuters

Poland says Belarus border crisis may be prelude to "something worse"

Polish soldiers and police watch migrants at the Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Territorial Defence Forces, November 12, 2021. Irek Dorozanski/DWOT/Handout via REUTERS

Belarus clears migrant camps at EU border, but crisis not yet over

Polish soldiers and police watch migrants at the Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Territorial Defence Forces, November 12, 2021. Irek Dorozanski/DWOT/Handout via REUTERS

Poland faces months of migration pressure from Belarus, minister says

Polish law enforcement officers use a water cannon on migrants, who attempt to cross the Belarusian-Polish border at Bruzgi - Kuznica checkpoint in the Grodno region, Belarus November 16, 2021. Photo :Reuters

Poland turns water cannon on rock-throwing migrants at Belarus border

Polish soldiers and police watch migrants at the Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Territorial Defence Forces, November 12, 2021. Irek Dorozanski/DWOT/Handout via REUTERS

Polish PM calls for 'concrete steps' from NATO amid Belarus border crisis

Polish soldiers and police watch migrants at the Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Territorial Defence Forces, November 12, 2021. Irek Dorozanski/DWOT/Handout via REUTERS

Polish police say group of 50 migrants broke through Belarus border

Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in an annual nationwide televised phone-in show in Moscow, Russia June 30, 2021. Sputnik/Sergei Savostyanov/Pool via REUTERS

Russia has 'nothing to do' with Belarus-Poland border crisis: Putin

Polish military police stay on guard at the Poland/Belarus border near Kuznica, Poland, in this photograph released by the Territorial Defence Forces, November 12, 2021. Photo :Reuters

Turkey curbs flights to Belarus to ease migrant crisis

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a news conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia September 9, 2021. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File Photo

Belarus leader floats idea of cutting gas to Europe in migrant standoff

Electric poles are are seen during the morning hours near the road that links the border village of Bialowieza to Hajnowka during the migrant crisis on the Belarusian - Polish border near Hajnowka, Poland, November 11, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

Russia, Western nations row at UN over Belarus migrant crisis

Migrants gather near a barbed wire fence in an attempt to cross the border with Poland in the Grodno region, Belarus November 8, 2021. Leonid Scheglov/BelTA/Handout via REUTERS

Neighbours of Belarus say migrant crisis risks military clash

Migrants gather at the Belarus side of the border with Poland near Kuznica Bialostocka, Poland, in this photograph released by the Polish Defence Ministry, November 10, 2021. MON/Handout via REUTERS

Russia flies nuclear-capable bombers over Belarus as migrant crisis escalates