Belarus says joint air force drills with Russia finished

Belarus' Defence Ministry said on Thursday that it had completed two-week long joint air force drills with Russia's military.

A flurry of joint military activity in Belarus has prompted fears in Kyiv and the West that Moscow could be preparing to drag its close ally further into the conflict in Ukraine.

Minsk said a wide range of tasks had been completed during the drills, which it added were "exclusively defensive in nature".

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