Latvia blocks Russian and Belarusian books, clothes and toys
The national measure goes beyond EU sanctions, covers goods worth €12.5 million in 2025, and limits the entry of propaganda materials.
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Up to 60 railcars: Belarus wires a border base to take in military trains
Leaked papers show a base near Ukraine getting a rail spur for up to 60 railcars and a ramp for military vehicles—as Minsk drops its threat talk.
Belarus built base near Ukraine. Now it’s laying rail that can unload 60 wagons of military equipment
Project documents describe a freight platform with a ramp for unloading wheeled and tracked vehicles.
Latvia resumes naming firms trading with Russia or Belarus after nearly three years
A new monthly register identifies Latvian businesses that traded goods with Russia or Belarus in July, without alleging that they violated sanctions.
Russia could open northern front by February if it orders new mobilization, Ukraine intel says
Ukraine’s military intelligence sees no preparations for a northern attack, but officials warn such a front could pull defenders from the east and south.
Russia builds and expands at least 10 drone bases. Some could put Warsaw in range – Telegraph
Seven sites were reportedly used in attacks on Kyiv, while the wider buildout adds to Russia’s military infrastructure along NATO’s borders.
Ukraine still hands Kremlin opponents back to Russia—even now
Ukraine never stopped handing Kremlin opponents to Russia and its own prisoner swaps, human rights defender says.
Military training from age 15: Belarus splits 10th-graders into drone pilots and battlefield medics
The move deepens a years-long militarization of Belarusian schooling that now reaches from kindergarten military-patriotic groups to mandatory field camps.
Tree lines out, swamps in—Lithuania rethinks how to stop Russian armor at the border
Restored wetlands are meant to make some ground simply impassable to heavy military vehicles within a few years.
The Belarus border tunnels reached Latvia—guards turned back the 15 migrants who crawled underground
The passage surfaced near Latvia’s fence as Riga moved to coordinate police, soldiers, and security services against migrant-smuggling networks.
Belarus is forming its fourth airborne brigade 40 km from Ukraine, with a permanent base set for 2027
Minsk's Special Operations commander says the new 37th brigade is taking shape near Homel, with its permanent base by the Ukrainian frontier not ready until 2027.
World Boxing restores Russia’s symbols while its war grinds through a fifth year of killing
The governing body said Russians would compete like any other national team, attaching only a promise to watch their conduct and doping.
The Belarusian tunnel to the EU was almost done. Then Lithuania drilled a hole in exactly the wrong place—for the diggers
Polish tunnel-detection equipment narrowed down the location, and a single bore confirmed a passage running from Belarusian soil.
Lithuania proposes to implement special test for Russian and Belarusian artists and academics who enter state. Those who don’t pass will be banned
Lithuania's Foreign Ministry proposed barring Russian and Belarusian cultural, scientific, and sports figures who performed in occupied Ukraine or backed the war from entering the country.
Poland promised a 700-kilometer shield against Russia—two years on, satellites show four short fortified zones
Warsaw has spent since October 2024 on the project, yet only about 10 kilometers of actual linear fortifications have gone up. The situation in the Baltic States is even worse, a French analyst says.
EU adopts largest sanctions package on Russia: 218 names and 100+ banks and crypto platforms among those on the list
Banks, refineries, drone parts, crypto exchanges: the bloc's 21st sanctions package reaches further into Russia's economy than any round before it.
A nationwide bomb-shelter overhaul is underway in Belarus as Moscow pushes Minsk toward its war against Ukraine
Belpol documented shelter modernization at government offices, telecom sites, factories, utilities, and the National Bank, framing it as another stage of Minsk's war readiness.
Latvia logs 111 straight days of migrants pushed across from Belarus—and blames its support for Ukraine
Lithuania and Poland together absorbed barely a tenth of the roughly 9,100 attempts recorded across the bloc's Belarus frontier since January.
Russia weighs three routes into Ukraine. Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief says Chernihiv is the real one
Syrskyi ranks the Bryansk axis above a Belarus-based attack
Kyiv gave Belarus ruler week to pull Russia’s drone relays. They went silent in three days, Zelenskyy says
Whether Belarus dismantled them or Ukraine acted, the president says he does not yet know.