29.05.2021 – 09:18
Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko, internationally isolated after the kidnapping of a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius, has sought Russian support.
Russian media that during a meeting that Lukashenko held with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Sochi, the Black Sea discussed the implementation of the agreement on state union Russia – Belarus, which Lukashenko signed in 1997 with Boris Yeltsin, but was never implemented .
Meanwhile, Ursula von der Leyen has indicated that the Commission was ready to provide three billion euros in financial assistance. “For a future democratic Belarus”. A Kremlin spokesman attributed the ban to two European flights, bypassing Belarus in Russian airspace simply because “Technical reasons”.