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Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed solidarity with Belarus, which opposes the illegitimate sanctions of the West. This is reported on the website of the President of the Russian Federation.
Putin expressed solidarity during a telephone conversation with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. The conversation was organized on the eve of the plenary session of the Forum of Regions of Russia and Belarus, in which Putin and Lukashenko will participate via video link.
“Attention was also paid to the problems of the ongoing sanctions pressure on the republic. The Russian side expressed solidarity with Belarus, which opposes unilateral illegitimate restrictions imposed by Western states in violation of international law,” the website reports.
On June 24, the European Union imposed sectoral sanctions against Belarus: restrictions on trade in potash fertilizers, petroleum products, tobacco products (applies to contracts concluded after June 25, 2021), as well as a ban on the access of the government and state banks to the EU financial market. The sanctions were a response to the May incident with the landing of a Ryanair plane in Minsk and the detention of the Belarusian oppositionist Roman Protasevich flying on this board.