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Vladimir Putin heads for Belarus amid fears of new assault on Ukraine
19/12/2022 02:05 PM | Click to read full article
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin flies to Belarus on Monday amid fear in Kyiv that he intends to pressure the former Soviet ally to join a new ground offensive against Ukraine and reopen a new front. Mr Putin’s visit for talks with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko will be his first to Minsk since 2019, before the pandemic and a wave of Belarusian protests in 2020 that Lukashenko crushed with strong support from the Kremlin.
