The United States is also sending a clear, if only symbolic, signal to Belarus.

The US Department of Transportation bans the sale of airline tickets to Belarus. Above all, it is a symbolic step, as there are no direct flights between the two countries. The American pilots association ALPA welcomed the order of the Department of Transportation, for which there are only exceptions if these are in the national interest of the United States, for humanitarian reasons as well as for reasons of national security. That reports the Tagesschau.

The background to the restrictions is the diversion of a Ryanair flight to Minsk and the subsequent arrest of a Belarusian journalist who was on board. The blogger Roman Protassewitsch faces 15 years imprisonment.