Great Britain and Canada Following the European Union and US imposed sanctions against Belarus, reported in a joint statement of countries on the US State Department website.
The statement indicates that the regime of the Belarusian President of Alexander Lukashenko is guilty of repeating attacks on human rights and freedoms, as well as in violations of international law.
German Foreign Minister Haiko Maas previously spoken about the goal of new sanctions: according to him, Western countries want to deprive the Belarusian authorities of sources of financing.
Earlier on June 21, it became known about the new US sanctions package against the Belarusian state. It entered his list, among others, the commander of the special unit of the KGB Belarus “Alpha” Sergey Zubkov.
EU introduced sanctions simultaneously with the United States. In its sanctions list 78 physical and eight legal entities. Among the latter are the largest automotive companies in Belarus, MAZ and BelAZ, as well as related to the Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriev “New Oil Company” and “Bearer Navigation”.