The displaying of the red-and-black flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) caused anger in Poland.
The displaying of the red-and-black flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) caused anger in Poland.
Minsk says it is a “destructive event” that will harm relations between the two countries.
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The governments say, however, that there is “currently no justification for reintroducing border controls” as two German states requested.
The sanctions come in response to Belarus’s Supreme Court upholding the eight-year prison sentence against Andrzej Poczobut.
Poland’s human rights office has visited the group to ascertain their status.
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Warsaw welcomed the decision, calling it “the first positive news from Minsk in a long time.”
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended yesterday that Russians and Belarusians be allowed to return under a neutral flag.
She suggested that hundreds of migrants who crossed from Belarus could have died and been buried in mass graves to hide the evidence.
This is further “destruction of Polish cultural heritage in Belarus by the Lukashenko regime”, says Poland’s foreign ministry.
The decision comes a day after the jailing of an ethnic Polish leader by Belarus.
Poland accused Minsk of using “Poles living in Belarus as political hostages.”
Belarusians made up the majority.
The group described it as an “act of civil disobedience” to express opposition to the government’s “cruel” border policies.