Belarus views Western sanctions, imposed in response to Minsk’s forced landing of a Ryanair plane last month to arrest a journalist on board, as a declaration of economic war, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on June 22.
Protests in Belarus
Reuters: Belarus says Western sanctions bordering on a ‘declaration of economic war’
Law enforcement officers gather to disperse opposition supporters during a rally to protest against alleged election fraud and the killing of an opposition activist in Minsk on Nov. 15, 2020.
