Review the day’s key developments in defense and global affairs with SOFREP’s Evening Brief – Friday, May 23, 2025.

According to Natalia Eismont, press secretary of the Belarusian president, Minsk didn’t help mediate the exchange ...

Russia and Ukraine began a major prisoner exchange, swapping hundreds of soldiers and civilians in the first phase of an ...

Nine European countries back EU migrant expulsion reform, urging a new approach to handling migration, crime, and national ...

The decision to introduce increased tariffs on Belarusian imports of agricultural products and potash fertilizers to the EU is blatant trade protectionism and unfair competition, Ruslan Varankov, ...

The sale of Belarusian potash fertilizers has reached pre-sanction levels, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday while visiting the mining and processing complex in Lyuban district.

Germany launches first permanent foreign military deployment since WWII, with 5,000 troops to be stationed in Lithuania by ...

The Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded on X to the post of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz about the ...

The EU has labeled Belarus, Russia, Myanmar, and North Korea as "high risk" under its new deforestation law, sparing major ...

The decision to introduce increased tariffs on Belarusian imports to the EU is blatant trade protectionism, unfair ...

Belarus’s events marking 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany were a show of state power—but also reflected real popular ...