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Belarus claims it won’t send troops to Ukraine unless it is attacked, as tensions escalate at border

By Frederik Pleitgen, Zahra Ullah, Claudia Otto and Rob Picheta, CNN Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed there is “no way” his country would send troops into Ukraine unless it is attacked, amid fears Russia’s close ally will help to facilitate a spring offensive by Moscow. “We are peaceful people. We know what war is

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The Russian official at center of alleged scheme to forcibly deport thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia

CNN By Mick Krever, CNN Read Maria Lvova-Belova’s social media, and one might think Russia is selflessly delivering Ukrainian children from evil into the care of Russian families desperate to share their love. But according to American and European governments — and a new report by Yale investigators, backed by the US State Department —

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The Russian official at center of alleged scheme to forcibly deport thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia

By Mick Krever, CNN Read Maria Lvova-Belova’s social media, and one might think Russia is selflessly delivering Ukrainian children from evil into the care of Russian families desperate to share their love. But according to American and European governments — and a new report by Yale investigators, backed by the US State Department — she

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Tensions mount at the Belarus-Ukraine border amid concerns of a Russian spring offensive

By Zahra Ullah and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Tensions are mounting at the border between Ukraine and Moscow-allied Belarus, as officials in Kyiv warn of a Russian spring offensive amid ramped-up military attacks from the Kremlin. In rare access since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, a CNN team visited Belarus’s southwest border near northwest Ukraine,

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Russian journalist sentenced to six years in prison for Telegram post on Mariupol theater strike

By Anna Chernova, CNN A Russian court has sentenced journalist Maria Ponomarenko to six years in prison for a Telegram post that the court said spread “false information,” state news agency TASS said on Wednesday. Ponomarenko was detained last April and charged with publishing “false information” on her Telegram channel about a Russian airstrike on

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