EU plans to impose sanctions against 86 individuals and companies from Belarus

“Today we will agree on the fourth package of sanctions against Belarus.

The new sanctions will affect 86 individuals and companies, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, who arrived at the meeting of the EU foreign ministers, said that EU sanctions against Belarus will be adopted in connection with "human rights violations and pressure on the opposition", as well as for the incident with an emergency landing of a Ryanair plane in Minsk.

Earlier, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, on the eve of the meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU countries, said that additional sanctions against Belarus are inevitable.