Belarus Ready to Hit Back at New EU Sanctions
Belarus is ready to hit back hard at the new packages of European sanctions, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said as he hosted a meeting with the senior officials of the Council of Ministers in Minsk on 11 November, BelTA has learned.
"They have started to intimidate us with the fifth package. With regard to this fifth package, the prime minister has been instructed to think of retaliatory measures. Poland is threatening us with the border closure. They are welcome to do it. The fewer opposition-minded people will go there. But the point is not about that. I have just heard what these brainless people have been babbling about. They are contemplating the closure of transit through Belarus. But it will not go through Ukraine as the Russian border is closed there. There are no routes through the Baltic states. But if it is us who will close it for Poles and, for example, Germans, what will happen then? We should not stop at anything when defending our sovereignty and independence," Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed.
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