On February 12, 2025, in Gomel, Belarus, a video captured explosions after an unidentified kamikaze UAV was shot down. In the video, residents reported hearing explosions, and eyewitnesses indicated ...

GOMEL, Belarus — Living 30 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, Belarusian retiree Sergei Budyukhin says the war on the other side of the frontier never feels far away. “I am afraid,” said ...

"I am afraid," said the talkative 63-year-old on Lenin Avenue in Gomel, a town of half a million near where the borders of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia meet. "I want peace," the former electrician ...

After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better relations, raising hopes of loosening his repression and his embrace of ...

An American was among three people released from prison by the government of Belarus, the Trump administration announced Wednesday. Adam Boehler, the US special envoy for hostages, told reporters ...

Andrei Kuznechyk and an unnamed American were released on Wednesday. Belarusian journalist Andrei Kuznechyk and an unnamed American citizen were among the three prisoners released in Belarus on ...

Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s isolation from the West. By Andrew Higgins and Tomas Dapkus Belarus ...

Russia is preparing for a major military escalation, potentially targeting NATO countries as early as next year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Speaking at the Munich Security ...

An American is one of three hostages released from Belarus, the White House has announced. The identity of the hostage has not been released as the person wishes to remain private, U.S. Envoy for ...

The White House said Wednesday that President Trump secured the release of at least three people jailed in Belarus, including an American it has not named and a Belarusian journalist. The ...

The European Union proposed imposing tariffs on the remaining agricultural products coming from Russia and Belarus that aren’t already facing duties, as well as some nitrogen-based fertilizers ...