A reporter with Agence France-Presse started saying that a large rally was taking place in Warsaw. However, Aleksandr Lukashenko argued that the event was not as large as Western mass media were trying to portray it.

Poland's foreign ministry has expressed disappointment over Sunday’s presidential vote in neighbouring Belarus, where strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko is poised to extend his 31-year rule following a landslide victory widely dismissed by the West as a sham.

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the leader-in-exile of Belarus's opposition, has dismissed election results that saw longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko declared winner. China and Russia offered Minsk their congratulations.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is projected to take victory in the virtually uncontested election by a greater margin than he did in 2020.

Poland’s presidency of the European Union is firmly focused on security. The challenges and contradictions of defending the bloc and its values are stark at Poland's border with Belarus, Russia's ally in its war on Ukraine.

Belarus is held a presidential election yesterday that will certainly secure another five-year mandate for Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for

Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko said Sunday that his jailed opponents had "opened their mouths too widely" as he voted in an election set to extend his three-decade rule in the

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Hundreds of Belarusians, led by opposition leader-in-exile Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, demonstrated in Warsaw on Sunday over the rigged presidential election back home that saw dictator Lukhashenko ‘win’ a seventh mandate.

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has dismissed Sunday's presidential election in Belarus as a political charade, calling it a "special electoral operation" designed to keep long-time ruler Alexander Lukashenko in power.

Belarus autocrat Alexander Lukashenko, in power since 1994, won a seventh consecutive term in office yesterday in an election denounced by the European Union and the exiled opposition.