Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said Friday there will only be war if “aggression is committed against Belarus” or “our ally Russia,” Politico reports.Said Lukashenko: “If our country faces an aggression, there will be hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers here, who will defend this sacred land together with hundreds of thousands of Belarusians.”

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Belarus Leader Pledges War If Russia Is Attacked

President Biden said Friday he plans to send a small number of U.S. forces to Eastern Europe in the “near term” amid growing fears of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.  



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Biden says he'll send troops to Eastern Europe in 'near term'

With Russian troops massed on Ukraine's border, US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is trying to break through a "wall of Russian propaganda", its director for Europe told AFP.
Based in Prague, RFE/RL was founded in 1950 as an anti-communist outlet to beam programmes into the Soviet bloc, helping topple those totalitarian regimes nearly four decades later.

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US Radio Sets Out To Break Russian 'Propaganda Wall'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be preparing to launch an invasion of Ukraine, with more than 100,000 troops positioned around the country. Certainly, the U.S. believes that's the case and President Joe Biden has warned Ukrainian…

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EXPLAINER: Russia's risky options beyond full Ukraine attack

The prospect of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine has heightened alarm in the region, threatening to plunge the country's 44 million inhabitants further into the grips of conflict.

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Yorkshire Post

How a Russian invasion of Ukraine would reverberate around the world

LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will step up diplomatic efforts over the Ukraine crisis with a visit to the region next week and a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a bid to avoid bloodshed. Russia has massed troops on Ukraine's border, and Putin has said that the United States and NATO have not addressed Moscow's main security demands, though he was ready to

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Amid Ukraine crisis, UK PM Johnson to visit region next week

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will visit Russia and talk with President Vladimir Putin over the phone in an attempt to stop an invasion of Ukraine.



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UK prime minister to call Putin in attempt to stop Ukraine invasion

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov on Friday said that the international military assistance to his country is "optimistic," the Ukrainian government-run Ukrinform news agency reported.

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Int'l military assistance for Ukraine 'optimistic': defense minister

A call between President Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday “did not go well,” a senior Ukrainian official told CNN, amid disagreements over the “risk levels” of a Russian attack.The White House, however, disputed the official’s account, warning that anonymous sources were “leaking falsehoods.”

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New York Post

Biden Call with Ukraine’s President ‘Did Not Go Well’

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has deployed the troops and military hardware needed to invade all of Ukraine, the Pentagon’s top leaders said on Friday, as senior Defense Department officials warned that the tense standoff was leading the United States, its NATO allies and Russia into uncharted territory.

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