"I doubt that the 10th package of EU sanctions against Russia - with a significant component against Belarus this time - will be ready for approval before or during the EU-Ukraine summit on February 3.

Most likely, it will happen later in February," Yuzviak wrote.

The head of the European Commission

, Ursula von der Leyen,

said on January 11 that she informed about the EU's intention to impose new sanctions against Belarus for supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine.

"We will pressure the Kremlin with sanctions as long as necessary.

We will extend sanctions to those who militarily support Russia's war, such as Belarus and Iran," said the head of the European Commission.

The next day it became known that Belarus was not included in the latest sanctions packages of the European Union, because this is Ukraine's position, journalist Rikard Yuzviak reported.

According to him, the Ukrainian side demanded not to introduce additional sanctions against Lukashenka's regime.

The ninth package of EC sanctions was adopted in December.

  • At the beginning of October last year, Alexander Lukashenko admitted at a meeting on military security issues that Belarus is taking part in Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine.

  • Officially, the Belarusian army does not take part in the full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine, but Lukashenka gave the territory of Belarus for the transit and temporary deployment of Russian troops, and from its territory strikes are launched against Ukraine.

    Due to Russia's assistance in the war against Ukraine and mass repressions by the USA, the European Union and Great Britain imposed sanctions against Belarus.

  • At the same time, citizens of Belarus are fighting on the side of Ukraine, the exact number of Belarusians taking part in the war is unknown.

    It is known about several killed.

    Svetlana Tsikhanovskaya stated about 1,500 Belarusians fighting in Ukraine.

    In the petition to grant citizenship to foreigners fighting on the side of Ukraine, more than two thousand citizens of Belarus who participate in the defense of the country are mentioned.