The Lukashenko regime is likely to feel the sanctions are approaching. Belavia’s website has suddenly been banned from traveling to Belarus from Turkey on Friday morning.
For short notification no explanation has been added to the website yet. It is only mentioned that people who have already purchased tickets for the flights will be refunded.
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In turn, the Turkish national airline Turkish Airlines will no longer sell tickets for flights to Minsk to Syrian and Iraqi citizens, Lithuanian Transport Minister Marjus Skuodis has announced.
“I can confirm this after a fruitful meeting with the Turkish ambassador to Lithuania this morning,” the minister wrote on Facebook on Thursday night, without giving more details about the steps taken by Ankara.
Skaties.lv has already reported that the European Union is ready for a new round of sanctions against the Belarussian regime. European Union (EU) ambassadors on Wednesday agreed to extend sanctions against Belarus to target the regime’s deportation of thousands of migrants to the Union’s borders. The ambassadors’ decision has paved the way for EU foreign ministers to approve the sanctions at a meeting on Monday.
Diplomats say the EU wants to blacklist some 30 individuals and organizations, including Belarusian state-owned airline Belavia and travel agencies. These legal entities and individuals will be frozen in the EU and banned from entering the Union.
Sanctions have now been imposed on 166 people linked to the Lukashenko regime, including Lukashenko himself and his son.
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