President Putin touched down in Minsk today along with both his defence and foreign ministers for talks with their Belarusian counterparts. That is a weighty delegation, probably the most ...

Normandy Four leaders have agreed that their ministers of foreign affairs shall prepare a road map for the implementation of the Minsk peace agreements on Donbas by the end of November 2016, Ukrainian ...

It is important to remember that we don’t end the projects after Victory Day celebrations in May. All of them are designed to run till the end of the year,” Irina Akulovich added.

“If Minsk fails, events will logically follow that will cross everyone’s red line—Putin’s, the West,” Cohen said. “And we’ll be in a situation much closer to actual war with Russia.” ...

The initial agreement, known as Minsk I, was signed five months into the conflict on 5 September 2014 by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe ...

MINSK, 30 August (BelTA) – Over 120 lawyers of the Minsk Oblast Bar Association led by Chairman Maksim Tereshkov helped beautify the territory of the World War Two memorial complex Khatyn, BelTA ...

A large convoy carrying fighters from the Wagner private army was spotted entering Belarus from Russia early Saturday, a monitoring group reported after the country's Defense Ministry said it ...

The Minsk agreement between Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine only came about because the regime in Kiev has its back to the wall and urgently needs a respite. The Minsk truce: A hiatus in an ...

At the Minsk summit 12 months ago French President Hollande, Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Poroshenko with German Chancellor Merkel agreed to a packaged peace deal that was meant ...

The Minsk agreement or Minsk protocol, started out as an agreement in 2014, which later called for another version of it, hence leading to the 'Minsk Agreements'. They comprise of Minsk I and ...

Minsk I Ukraine and the Russia-backed separatists agreed on a 12-point ceasefire deal in September 2014. Its provisions included prisoner exchanges, deliveries of humanitarian aid and the ...

The authoritarian president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, said at the time that Minsk could use Wagner's experience and expertise, and that he had offered the fighters an “abandoned military ...