EU Prepares Fourth Package Of Sanctions Against Belarus, Considers 165 Names

The European Union is preparing to adopt the fourth package of sanctions against Belarusian officials and those who take part in arrests, tortures, beatings of peaceful demonstrators, and human rights violations in Belarus. The new package may be adopted in late February or early March, Franak Vyachorko, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s advisor on international affairs, told TUT.BY.

As of today, 208 people have already been included in the sanctions lists – these are people who, according to the EU, participated in falsifications, Lukashenko’s “wallets”, security officials, immediate entourage, and Lukashenko himself. Those people are in sanctions lists by the European Union, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Switzerland, Canada, and Great Britain.