# The European Union has expanded its sanctions against Belarus. According to the Guardian, the EU accuses Alexander Lukashenko’s regime of waging a hybrid attack against the bloc, by allowing people from the Middle East who are desperate to reach the EU to fly into Minsk then head for the Polish border. Lukashenko has vowed to retaliate against the sanctions. EU’s Josep Borrell says the Belarusian airline Belavia will be affected by the sanctions:

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