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The main national airport of Lithuania is being repeatedly shut down by weather balloons carrying packets of contraband cigarettes.

Poland contradicted the public line of President Trump and NATO suggesting an accident, stating on Friday “it wasn’t. And we know it.”

NATO airspace violated by “huge number of Russian drones” overnight, the Prime Minister of Poland said, as he triggered NATO’s Article Four.

Polish military police are investigating after a reported drone exploded in a field in the east of the country, damaging nearby buildings. 

Belarus has freed dissident Siarhei Tsikhanouski following a rare visit by U.S. President Donald Trump´s envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg.

Allies of strongman Vladimir Putin were treated to a lavish banquet on Thursday at the Kremlin as part of Russia’s 80th “Victory Day” anniversary celebrations.

NATO clarified comments that suggested four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, saying the search continued.

Almost 30,000 attempted border crossings were spotted last year. Most are young men, often from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says relations with Russia have deteriorated beyond the “point of no return.”

Poland will enact a temporary ban on asylum claims to “regain control and ensure safety” in the country, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

NATO members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will seek European Union funding to build a network of bunkers, barriers, distribution lines and military warehouses along their borders with Russia and Belarus, Estonia´s officials said Saturday.

Poland´s security officials said they foiled cyberattacks and online blackmail attempts by groups acting for Russian and Belarusian services.

Russia’s team for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, consists of just 15 people — a massive fall from the 330 athletes Russia sent to the 2021 Tokyo Summer Games, thanks to the international fallout from Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.

The head of a banned Belarusian opposition party who had been behind bars for two years was released on Monday as the authoritarian country frees a trickle of political prisoners.

A Belarusian human rights group said Friday that a German citizen has been sentenced to death for terrorism and other charges.

China sent troops to Belarus for training for the first time, conducting an exercise called “Eagle Assault” near the Polish border.

The Chinese state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times mocked the ongoing NATO summit in Washington on Tuesday as a display of a “brittle” alliance, claiming that the fact that most member states hold free and fair elections – and thus routinely change their rules – weakens them.

Belarusian Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Viktor Khrenin said on Monday that his country’s forces are joining “tactical nuclear weapon deployment” drills ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Poland’s military says a soldier who was stabbed last month from behind a barrier at the border with Belarus has died.

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk vowed to further fortify the border with Belarus after a soldier was stabbed by a migrant at the border.

President’s main tasks in the NATO-member state are foreign and defense policy, as supreme commander of the armed forces.

Poland is investing about $2.5 billion to step up security and deterrence on its border with Russia and its ally Belarus.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk traveled to the country’s border with Belarus, vowing to strengthen security along its eastern frontier.

Poland’s defense minister said his country is strengthening the metal barrier along its border with Belarus to deter illegal migration.

Belarus accuses NATO of provocations that could trigger nucelar apocalypse, and of allegedly launching ‘combat drone’ strikes against Minsk.

Poland is in talks with the United States about hosting nuclear weapons and has been for some time, the country’s President has said.

GENEVA (AP) — Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be allowed to take part in the traditional parade at the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, the IOC said Tuesday.

Konstantin Koltsov, former Pittsburgh Penguin and boyfriend of tennis star Aryna Sabalenka, has died, according to his Russian hockey team.

Polls opened Sunday in Belarus’ tightly controlled parliamentary and local elections which the opposition dismissed as a “senseless farce.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released its annual census of imprisoned reporters this weekend, and found China was once again the world’s worst jailer of journalists, followed closely by Myanmar, with Belarus in third place.

Israel has been barred by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) from competing in world championship events over “security concerns.”

Poland says a Russian missile participating in this morning’s massive air strike on Ukraine spent three minutes in NATO airspace. 

Belarusian authorities convicted the chief editor of a prominent independent regional newspaper of “discrediting the Republic of Belarus”.

Polish border guards successfully repelled dozens of migrants as they attempted to violently break through from neighbouring Belarus.

Vladimir Putin ordered one of the top commanders of the Wagner mercenary group, Andrei Troshev, to take charge of “volunteer units” in Ukraine.

Agnieszka Holland is demanding an apology from Poland’s justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro who compared her film to “Nazi propaganda.”