EU Tightens Sanctions on Belarus After US Moves Woo Minsk
Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko at Independence Palace in Minsk.
Photographer: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty ImagesThe European Union expanded sanctions against Belarus, just days after the US said it would lift restrictions on exports of potash from the country, underscoring diverging approaches to the close ally of Russia.
“If the Belarus regime doesn’t change its behavior, we might be both at different speeds and at different directions with the US,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said Monday in Brussels.