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Sunday, October 26, 2025
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Topic: Belarus-Russia

A year before Paris Olympics, Ukraine may drop boycott threat

Some Ukrainian athletes though condemned the blanket ban on competing against Russians and Belarusians as a self-inflicted wound.

Senior Russian general knew about Wagner chief Prigozhin’s rebellion plan, says NYT report

The newspaper reported that US officials were 'trying to learn if Gen. Surovikin, the former top Russian commander in Ukraine, helped plan Mr. Prigozhin's actions last weekend.'

Jet linked to Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin arrives in Belarus following mutiny

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an address on Monday night that the mutiny leaders had betrayed their motherland, although he did not mention Prigozhin by name.

Moscow’s deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus time-limited, says senior Russian diplomat

Alexei Polishchuk, in an interview, said the weapons could be removed from Belarus if the US & NATO 'refrained from undermining the security and sovereignty of Russia and Belarus'.

Putin confirms deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, warns West

Russian President announced in March that he agreed to deploy nuclear arsenal in Belarus, pointing to US deployment of weapons in a host of European countries over many decades.

Have received Russian bombs ‘more powerful than Hiroshima, Nagasaki’, says Belarusian President

Putin's ally Alexander Lukashenko, in an interview, confirmed that Belarus has started taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons

Russia begins move to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus in July, says President Putin

Putin's move comes in the wake of Russia-Ukraine war and is seen as an apparent warning to the US-led NATO military alliance over it support for Kyiv.

Belarusian President says ‘nuclear weapons for everyone’ if any country joins Russia-Belarus union

Russia and Belarus are formally part of a Union State, a borderless union and alliance between the two former Soviet republics.

On Camera

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.