/ world today news/ In response to the arrest of the opposition journalist Roman Protasevich by the Belarusian authorities, EU leaders decided to ban Belarusian airlines from flying in the airspace of the European Union, writes The Washington Post. In addition, during the leaders’ summit, it was decided to urgently impose new sanctions against Belarus.
After the summit held on Monday evening, the leaders of the EU countries agreed to significantly strengthen the sanctions against Belarus and to ban the planes of Belarusian airlines from flying in the European airspace, writes The Washington Post.
It is assumed that Belarusian planes will also not be able to use EU airports. In addition, the leaders recommended that European carriers refuse to fly in Belarusian airspace.
In addition to the decision to impose restrictions on airlines that “will deal a crushing blow to the economy“, the participants of the summit asked the head of European diplomacy to draw up a list of economic sanctions. The restrictive measures are expected to be introduced “immediately“, writes The Washington Post.
As the newspaper noted, the measures, which the leaders of all 27 EU countries supported, were “a quick and powerful response to the bold step of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko“. In particular, we are talking about the fact that the Belarusian authorities landed a Ryanair plane that was flying from Athens to Vilnius, escorting it with fighter jets and detained the opposition journalist Roman Protasevich, who was on the plane.
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