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Zelenskyy Signs New Sanctions Package, Including Against Entities From Belarus
The package targets 23 shadow fleet vessels and officials tied to child removals, while Kyiv says some listed figures were already sanctioned by partners.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced new sanctions on Thursday targeting Russian entities involved in abducting Ukrainian children and vessels of Russia's "shadow fleet."
- While Ukraine tightened measures, the United States softened Belarus sanctions four times since September, including March 2026 relief for Belaruskali and Belinvestbank, which Aliaksandr Lukashenka called part of a "big deal."
- Belpol, a group of former Belarusian security officers who defected after the 2020 crackdown, warned that sanctions relief funds Russia's war; Belinvestbank provides loans for 152mm artillery shells and 122mm rockets.
- Although Minsk released 250 prisoners, including journalist Katsyaryna Andreyeva, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry concludes Belarus uses these gestures to charm the West while continuing to host Russian Shahed drone relays.
- Zelenskyy stated, "We are working to synchronize all our sanctions regimes," yet discrepancies persist as each U.S. relief round signals to Moscow that trading prisoners for resources remains viable.
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Every time that the Lukashenka regime releases some of its many hundreds political prisoners, we witness scenes of jubiliation, of course. In Belarus, you can land in prison for decades just for carrying the wrong flag or poster. But we rarely hear about the other side of the coin, the hidden costs of the US making such deals with the Belarusian dictator, who has already been in power for more than 30 years. All of such deals are based on a cyni…
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Also on the sanctions list were two sons of the self-proclaimed president of Belarus.
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Total News Sources20
Leaning Left7Leaning Right2Center0Last UpdatedBias Distribution78% Left
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- 78% of the sources lean Left
78% Left
L 78%
R 22%
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