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A Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was forced to land in Belarus last year.
The Luhansk region’s governor said that Russian forces are attempting to blockade Lysychansk from the south.
The move comes after the Grand Slams condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The company, which employs 250 people in Russia and Belarus, said it is “horrified” by the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
The names are set to be unveiled shortly, when the sanctions are formally published in the EU’s official journal.
Athletes from those countries will compete under the Paralympic flag in Beijing and not be included in the medal table, the IPC said.
Belarusian authorities arrested journalist Roman Protasevitch after the flight was forced to land in Minsk on 23 May 2021.
Critics and environmentalists say the wall will fail to stop migrants, but will harm one of Europe’s last pristine woodlands.
The proposed amendments are published on the president’s official website.
The EU summit with its Eastern partnership came on the same day as Russia issued Washington a series of security demands.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Sergei Tikhanovsky’s wife and self-exiled current opposition leader, denounced the verdict on Twitter.
Volha Zalatar was arrested on the street when she was taking her 10-year-old daughter to music school.
Britain said it had imposed sanctions ‘on eight Belarusian individuals responsible for repression and human rights violations’.
Alexander Lukashenko has also said for the first time that he recognises the contested Crimean Peninsula as part of Russia.
Jim Clarken of Oxfam Ireland says the EU must better protect migrants suffering at its borders.
118 migrants were flown out of Belarus yesterday, with another group due to leave today.
The EU has accused Lukashenko’s government of orchestrating the migration surge as a “hybrid attack”.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is visiting the Baltic states to discuss the conflict.
Around 2,000 people, mainly Iraqi Kurds, had been stuck in freezing temperatures at the camp.
Belarussian officials believe there’s still 7,000 migrants in the country.
Polish police said they responded after one officer was seriously injured when the migrants threw objects
Belarus President Lukashenko today discussed the crisis with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Iraq has recorded 571 of its citizens on the border who have said they are ready to return “voluntarily”.
Aid agencies say at least 10 migrants have died so far and have warned of a humanitarian crisis unfolding.
The EU believes it is “seeing progress” on the migrant crisis along the border between Belarus and Poland.
At least ten people have already died in the region in recent weeks.
The situation has escalated rapidly since last weekend.
Thousands of migrants have been trying to illegally enter the country and are now trapped on the border.
Washington and Brussels called on Minsk to stop what they described as an orchestrated influx.
The crew consisted of three Belarusians, two Russians and two Ukrainian nationals.
Poland and Lithuania have been struggling to cope with an unusually high number of migrants arriving at their borders in recent months.
Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were awarded the prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Maria Kolesnikova has been in custody since her arrest last September.
President Alexander Lukashenko also promised to step down ‘very soon’ but would not say when exactly.
Our guest this week is Matthew Luxmoore, Moscow correspondent from Radio Free Europe.
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya had accused her country’s Olympic team officials of trying to force her to go back home.
The IOC has received a report from Belarus’s Olympic committee, which is “being evaluated.”
Lukashenko has been cracking down on opponents since protests erupted last year following ‘unfair’ elections.