Belarus’ Central Electoral Commission, which announced the date on October 23, has set its next presidential elections for January 26, 2025. The incumbent Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, who is currently in power, is widely expected to remain in power following the results of the election.
Lukashenko has been accused for years of staging fraudulent Belarus elections. He is the leader of Belarus since 1994 and Putin’s closest Russian ally.
Lukashenko remained in power during the 2020 presidential election despite Sviatlana tsikhanouskaya – the country’s leading opposition leader – receiving popular support. She claimed to have won with 60% of the votes.
After the fabricated results erupted mass protests in Minsk, but they were ultimately suppressed with the help of Russia.
According to the Belarusian Human Rights Group Viasna over 50,000 citizens were detained for political purposes since the 2020 elections.
Tsikhanouskaya, after the announcement of the date of the elections, disavowed the entire process, calling it “a sham, with no real electoral processes, conducted in a climate of terror.”
“No alternative candidates or observers will be allowed.” “We call on Belarusians to reject this farce,” Tsikhanouskaya continued.
After the 2020 election results the European Union imposed sanctions against Belarus for “repressions and intimidation of peaceful demonstrators, members of the opposition and journalists.”
On August 9, 2014, the U.K. imposed sanctions against four Belarusian citizens and three entities to mark the fourth anniversary of Belarus’ 2020 presidential election.
Belarus hosts Russian troops on its territory, despite not being directly involved with Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine.
Daleep Singh is the White House‘s deputy national security advisor for international economics. He said that Joe Biden intends to divide the funds between helping Ukraine’s economy and its military.
The statement read: “The next step will be advanced fast jet training with partner nations and conversion to F-16.”
“The situation in Toretsk is relatively stable.” “We (Ukrainian Forces) are now holding our line unchanged,” Anastasiia Bobbyvnikova, spokesperson for the Operational Tactical Group Luhansk said.
Park Sun-won is a member of the parliamentary intelligence committee. He said that signs of troops being trained in North Korea had been detected between September and October.
The 24-hour “I Want to Live”, hotline launched by Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence in September 2022, helps Russian soldiers willingly surrender their units or themselves to the Ukrainian Army.
Ivan Petrychak of the 24th Mechanized Brigade press service had said on national TV that the Russian military had breached the defenses, but there was no sign of the potential loss of the city.
According to reports, the secret clause allowed North Korea to send its first 1,000 soldiers to Ukraine in order to gain military training. The source told WSJ that more North Korean troops will be deployed.
Ukrainska Pravda reported on October 23 that Ruslan Muzychuk, a spokesperson for the National Guard of Ukraine, said that the troops had repelled 13 Russian attacks near the town Selydove located in the Donetsk Region over the last day.
According to a poll conducted by independent Levada Center from Sept. 10 to 17, 61% of Putin supporters said that they supported peace in Ukraine with mutual concessions.
The planes are reportedly equipped with long-range missiles SCALP/Storm Shadow and French guided bombs AASM.
U.S. Defense secretary Lloyd Austin said that there is evidence of DPRK troops present in Russia.
After arriving at Tbilisi Airport on October 22 to cover the upcoming elections, Czech journalist Ray Baseley had his entry to Georgia denied without explanation.
Denys Shmyhal, the PM, said that “the funds will be used for important non-military spending.”
According to the SBU the suspects planned to detonate an improvised explosive in a crowded area in Ukraine’s capital in order to cause “the greatest number of civilian deaths” as well as to create panic.
The U.K. seeks partners to co-finance “hundreds” of additional naval drones, as well as surveillance cameras to protect Ukraine’s grain canal.
A source close to the Presidential Office said that the document would address Ukraine’s military and political, as well as economic and other areas. It would also include certain decisions about law enforcement.
Kyrylo Budanov, the chief of military intelligence, claimed that Russia’s support for nuclear capabilities includes technologies for smaller tactical weapons and submarine missile launch systems.
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