EU agrees new sanctions against Belarus over border crisis
by Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Andrew Roth in Mos from World news | The Guardian on (#5RXZ9)
Sanctions to target people, airlines, travel agencies and everyone involved in this illegal push of migrants'
The EU has agreed on new sanctions against Belarus targeting everyone involved" in facilitating the transport of people to Belarus's border with Poland, where thousands are stuck in makeshift camps in freezing weather.
The EU accuses Alexander Lukashenko's regime of waging a hybrid attack" against the bloc by allowing people from the Middle East who are desperate to reach the EU to fly into Minsk then head for the Polish border.
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