Belarus revoked its consent to the appointment of Julie Fisher as the U.S. ambassador to the country and demanded Washington reduce its Minsk embassy staff to five people by September 1, the Belarusian foreign ministry said on August 11.
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Members of the Belarusian diaspora in Ukraine, covered with former national red and white flags of Belarus, honor Mykhailo Zhyznevskiy, Belarus killed during Euromaidan Revolution, in Kyiv on Aug. 8, 2021.