The leader of Belarus has denied last Sunday's presidential election was rigged and claimed NATO tanks and planes were massing 15 minutes from his country's border.

During a speech in the capital Alexander Lukashenko said Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Ukraine had told him to hold a new poll but he would not be doing so.

NATO said there had been no military build-up in eastern Europe and its forces were strictly defensive.

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