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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko might be bracing for a revolt from his own military officers after they recently expressed their opposition to the Russian war in Ukraine. Senior officers from the fifth brigade of the Special Forces warned in an open letter to Lukashenko, who is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, against sending troops to fight in Ukraine, describing that such decision is "pure suicide," the Express reported Saturday. "By entering the war against Ukraine, Belarus will be evicted from the community of civilized states and will be an international outcast for many years to come," the...

Vladimir Putin has lost at least 60 colonels in the war in Ukraine, it was revealed today. Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Moskvichev, 45, was buried with full military honours. A paratrooper, it took Russia three months to retrieve his body from the war zone and conduct his funeral, it was revealed. He was the 60th known colonel to have died in the bloody war, which has seen a crushing toll of high-ranking officers in Putin's forces, including at least 11 generals. The revelation of his death came as Putin declared he had hardly begun his military campaign in Ukraine. 'We haven't...