The Latest Breaking News from Alexander Lukashenko

Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as Putin’s chef because he formerly provide catering services to the Kremlin, is reported dead in plane crash northwest of Moscow

Options for the mercenary group – in the wake of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s reported death in a plane crash – include complete dissolution, nationalisation into the conventional Russian army or finding a new leader. Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to hold the key to the future

The Russian president has seemingly upped the stakes: anyone who challenges his regime will have to see it through to the end, says Samantha de Bendern, associate fellow at Chatham House

Pro-Kremlin media reported that a raid on the Wagner chief’s flat had been conducted by Russian forces

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says that Russia already is in the process of shifting some short-range nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus

Any attempt to breach Ukraine’s northern border would make no logistical sense, experts tell The Independent

Any attempt to breach Ukraine’s northern border would make no logistical sense, experts tell The Independent

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says US and NATO risk ‘a situation of direct armed confrontation of nuclear powers’.

Belarus would be willing to use nuclear weapons in the face of foreign “aggression”, said the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko.

As the war enters its 541st day, these are the main developments.

Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu on Thursday visited Belarus and said his country would increase military cooperation with Russia’s neighbor, where Moscow is deploying tactical nuclear weapons