Europe has threatened further sanctions against Lukashenko after a year of intensifying brutality, which has begun to spill across the EU border.
Protests in Belarus
EU Observer: EU neighbor marks a year of brutality
A demonstrator holds up a paper plane with the lettering 'Free Belarus' and 'Free Roman Protasevich' during a demonstration of Belarusians living in Poland and Poles supporting them in front of European Commission office demanding freedom for Belarus opposition activist Roman Protasevich in Warsaw, May 24, 2021 a day after a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying the dissident journalist was diverted while in Belarusian airspace.