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The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday that the 2022 Peace Prize will be awarded to Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski and two organizations, Memorial of Russia and the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia’s defence minister said Russian forces took control Sunday of the last major Ukrainian-held city in Ukraine’s Luhansk province, bringing Moscow closer to its stated goal of seizing all of Ukraine’s Donbas region.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visited the border area on Thursday to mark the completion of a new steel wall.

Russian doubles tennis player Natela Dzalamidze found a simple solution to widespread bans against Russian players in international sports after the invasion of Ukraine: she changed her nationality to Georgian and will therefore be allowed to play at Wimbledon with her Serbian doubles partner, Aleksandra Krunic.

Belarusian forces on the border may force Ukrainian troops to stay put instead of going to support operations in the eastern Donbas region.

Stanislav Shushkevich, who steered Belarus to independence during the breakup of the Soviet Union, has died. He was 87.

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko accused Britain of staging a “psychological operation” in Bucha to fake the alleged attrocities.

Pro-migrant activists have expressed frustration as Poland continues to welcome refugees from Ukraine but turns away illegal immigrants.

The Polish Border Guard saw a surge in illegal immigrants coming via Belarus this week, with 134 attempting to cross into the EU and NATO member on Tuesday — a daily record number for the year so far.

The United Kingdom has warned Communist China it will face sanctions if they send weapons to Russia to aid in the invasion of Ukraine.

Evan Neumann, who is wanted on a number of charges in relation to the January 6th 2021 protests in the United States, has been granted asylum in Belarus after alleging “political persecution” by the Biden adminstration.

Upwards of 1.5 million Ukrainians were estimated Sunday to have been displaced by Russia’s invasion forces as thousands more make ready to escape a homeland convulsed by war.

People are showing their support for Ukrainian citizens by booking Airbnbs in the war-stricken country without plans to stay in them. 

Popular rental platform Airbnb has announced plans to suspend all operations in Russia and Belarus following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Despite taking a stand over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the company has no problem with continuing to do business with communist China after doubling down as a sponsor of the Genocide Games. 

World Taekwondo condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “brutal attacks on innocent lives in Ukraine” on Sunday, and as a result will take back an honorary black belt given to the Russian leader in 2013, and also will no longer allow the display of Russian and Belarusian flags and the playing of their national anthems at future events.

International Skating Union (ISU) has moved to exclude Russian competitors in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin wants to re-create the “empire of fear” of the Soviet Union, a Lithuanian MP told Breitbart News.

President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling for both a ceasefire and for Ukraine’s “immediate” accession to the European Union as his government holds peace talks with a Kremlin delegation in the Russian client state of Belarus. 

Russia and Ukraine began talks Monday at the Belarus border as the conflict between the two neighbors enters its fifth day.

Ukraine has agreed to meet a Russian delegation on the Ukraine-Belarusian border, despite initially refusing the country as a location for talks over its involvement in the invasion.

Despite having previously repelled often violent migrants on the Belarusian frontier, Poland has welcomed genuine refugees from Ukraine with open arms.

A senior defense official told reporters Thursday that Russia has “every intention of basically decapitating” Ukraine’s government.

Poland’s national conservative prime minister has warned that the country’s left-liberal opposition will leave the country’s border “like Swiss cheese” if its left-liberal opposition parties return to power in the 2023 elections. 

Several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and others have called on Poland to stop the building of its anti-illegal immigration border barrier along the border with Belarus, claiming it could harm the local environment. A group of 150 NGOs from 25 countries

A group of migrants are to fly back to their native countries after accepting €1,000 (£842/$1,141) from the Lithuanian govt to go home. 

Poland is building a €350 million border fence to help stem the tide of illegal migrants attempting to cross into the EU nation via Belarus.

Polish authorities say they have blocked around 600 migrants from crossing into their country illegally from Belarus so far this year.

Diesel prices in Germany have hit record levels, as the energy crisis currently plaguing Europe continues.

The Lithuanian government has paid 98 illegal migrants €1,000 to board a flight to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

Since the start of the migrant crisis along Poland’s border, over 11,000 migrants have managed to make their way to Germany.

Belarus authorities proposed on Monday amendments to the country’s constitution that may allow Alexander Lukashenko to rule unitl 2035.

Lawmakers from Russia’s nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) on Monday submitted a bill that would declare the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 to be “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th Century.”

The Polish government has publicly condemned a soldier tasked with guardian the border who has defected to Belarus and claimed migrants are being killed and buried in mass graves.

Polish border guards and soldiers rescued four Middle Eastern migrants after receiving a distress call that they had become stuck in a bog after illegally crossing the border from Belarus.

A Polish border guard was injured over the weekend when a group of approximately 50 migrants attempted to storm the Polish border with Belarus, attacking the border guards with rock and stones. The incident took place near the village of Czeremsza

The British government has promised to help Ukraine fortify its Belarusian frontier amid worries Alexander Lukashenko could redirect illegal migrants from Poland and the Baltic States to the Ukrainian border.