Belarus says replacing national flag with opposition banner was mockery of the memory of WWII victims Belarus launched a criminal probe on Monday after its national flag was replaced by the one used by the country’s opposition at the former Buchenwald death camp in central Germany.

Moscow’s ally has modified its warplanes to deploy Russian weapons, the president claimed Belarus has finished preparing some of its military aircraft for the possible deployment of Russian nuclear weapons, President Alexander Lukashenko revealed on Friday.

Kaliningrad needs more products from mainland Russia than Western sanctions allow EU sanctions, regulating the quantity of goods that can be delivered from mainland Russia to Kaliningrad, are preventing the exclave from receiving all the items it needs, the local governor said on Tuesday.