Report: EU may slap sanctions on Aeroflot over Belarus

MOSCOW, Nov 11 (PRIME) -- The E.U. is considering sanctions on several foreign airlines, including Russian national flagship carrier Aeroflot and Turkish Airlines, over the migrant crisis on the border of Belarus and Poland, Bloomberg reported on Thursday quoting a source familiar with the matter.

The source said that the E.U. thinks that these airlines may be involved in bringing the migrants and may slap sanctions together with the U.S. and the U.K. in early December.

Previously, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that Minsk will not hold the flow of migrants and refugees to the E.U. any longer for the lack of funds because of the sanctions imposed by the West. Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland registered an increase of detains of illegal migrants at their borders with Belarus, and Poland even had to introduce an emergency regime at its border.

European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen told earlier U.S. President Joe Biden that the E.U. was considering sanctions against the airlines that transport migrants to Minsk.

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