Lukashenko visits China for a second time this year amid growing isolation and meets China's leader, Xi Jinping. Tsikhanouskaya calls on U.S. Congress to support Belarusian opposition and pressure Lukashenko with tougher sanctions and ICC arrest warrant.
Maria Lvova-Belova, a Russian official wanted by the International Criminal Court for abducting Ukrainian children, visits Minsk to discuss the “protection of children.” Hungary’s foreign minister makes a second controversial visit to Minsk. Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko invites Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to visit Belarus.
Belarus is planning to organize a visit for foreign representatives at locations where Ukrainian children taken from regions temporarily occupied by Russia are kept, the Foreign Ministry said on Sept. 30.
Lukashenko proposes creating a trilateral partnership with Russia and North Korea during his meeting with Putin in Sochi.
Forty-eight Ukrainian children abducted from Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine arrive in Belarus.
Latvia closes one of its border crossings with Belarus due to “the most tense situation since 2021” amid the Minsk-engineered
The European Parliament recognizes the regime of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko as an accomplice to the crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, including the mass abduction of children from occupied parts of Ukraine. The Red Cross recommends that the head of its Belarus branch, Dzmitryi Shautsou, step down until the investigation into his support for Russia’s war ends.