Poland will extend a ban on imports of Ukrainian grain and must protect its domestic market despite Warsaw’s broader support for Kiev in its conflict with Russia, President Andrzej Duda said on Monday.

Belarus is deploying the grouping as the nation is put on high terrorism alert, the country’s president has said Minsk has begun deployment of a joint Russian-Belarusian military force on its territory, President Alexander Lukashenko told journalists on Friday, citing “heightened tensions” on its borders, which prompted the nation to issue a high terrorism alert.

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