DW News published this video item, entitled “EU leaders agree on Belarus sanctions after plane diversion | DW News” – below is their description.
The EU agreed to slap new sanctions on Belarus, after Minsk forced a plane flying over its airspace to land in order to arrest a Belarusian dissident onboard.
In response, the EU leaders decided to ban Belarusian carriers from flying over the bloc’s airspace. The sanctions were approved during a summit in Brussels.
EU leaders condemned the arrest of 26-year-old Raman Pratasevich, a Belarusian dissident and blogger who was detained in Minsk after the Belarus authorities forcibly diverted his flight. Originally, the exiled blogger was traveling from Athens to Vilnius. However, the Belarus military scrambled a fighter jet while the Ryanair aircraft was in the Belarusian airspace.
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