AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoCSTO Drills: More than 1,500 troops from Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan began joint exercises in Belarus, including peacekeeping and chemical, biological and nuclear-threat response drills. Armenia is absent, having frozen its participation. NATO Warning: NATO’s top commander outlined a plan to repel a Russian attack that could include strikes on military command and air-defence sites in Belarus, alongside targets near St. Petersburg and in Kaliningrad. Washington and Lukashenka: Former US envoy Keith Kellogg said Lukashenka is not even Putin’s junior partner and described US sanctions relief as a pragmatic step tied to political-prisoner releases. Pressure on Minsk: EU foreign-policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc will propose ways to keep Russian and Belarusian athletes out of international competitions. Human rights defenders also say available data show no decline in the intensity of repression in Belarus. Military Priorities: Belarus’s defence industry says countering drones is now its main focus, with new detection systems entering service and domestic technology being upgraded.
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