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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
by Steve Sweeney
International editor
BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko says that Russia is set to deliver modern military hardware to the country as the nations prepare for joint war games exercises later this month.
“Russia in the near future will supply us — I won’t say how much money or what — with dozens of planes, dozens of helicopters, the most important air defence weapons,” he said yesterday.
The Baltic state is set to reverse its constitutional prohibition on nuclear weapons and foreign bases as part of accelerated Nato war preparations, warns TOM UNTERRAINER
In Washington, the willingness to accept an open war with Russia is growing — at Europe’s expense. While Nato states are being drawn into confrontation, Europe risks becoming the battlefield of a potential world war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys