The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Warsaw Open will be played from July 24-30. Earlier, the Sports and Tourism ministry of Poland had claimed that it has no legal instruments for admission of tennis players from Russia and Belarus to tournments in Poland.
Accusing Poland of having territorial ambitions in the former Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that any aggression against its neighbour and ally Belarus would be considered an attack on Moscow itself.
In the Wimbledon Women's singles semi-final match on Thursday, Tunisian tennis player Ons Jabeur defeated Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka. Jabeur will be up against Czech tennis player Marketa Vondrousova in the final on Saturday. After the win, Ons Jabeur said, 'I'm going for my revenge'.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, is presently in St. Petersburg, Russia, said Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko during a press conference with international media in Minsk, according to CNN.
Underlining that there are no more pending requests from members to become full SCO members as of now, Foreign Secretary Vinay Katra on Tuesday said that Iran is now a member and Belarus is set to become a full member of the charter by 2024.
An amnesty for the Wagner fighters who participated in the mutiny was part of a deal brokered on Saturday by Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko between Prigozhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin that brought an end to the war and also avoided the possible bloodshed in the country
In a major turn of events in the ongoing rebellion against Russia by the Wagner group, a criminal case was opened against the Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin on Monday, despite earlier claims by Kremlin that the charges against the group will be dropped.