#Belarus

While European governments tighten sanctions on Russia, a Belarusian honorary consul in Czechia quietly built a multinational trade network funneling restricted components to sanctioned Russian defense firms—under diplomatic cover.

Belarus’s domestically produced Polonez missile system may soon cross a dangerous new threshold, as officials in Minsk openly acknowledge work—led by Russian specialists—toward equipping the platform with a nuclear warhead, raising fresh concerns about Moscow’s expanding nuclear footprint on  NATO ’s eastern flank.

Moscow claims it has placed its new Oreshnik ballistic missile system on combat duty in Belarus, but the only hardware Russia was willing to show looked more like support vehicles than a nuclear-capable strike weapon.