Dmitry Lukashenko. Photo: Belta.by The European Union approved the fifth package of sanctions against Belarus, according to the European Council website. The sanctions list - 17 people and 11 organizations. At the same time, the United States, Canada and Great Britain imposed their sanctions. EU, USA, Great Britain and Canada made a joint statement. They require Lukashenko’s regime “immediately and completely” to stop organizing illegal migration across the EU boundaries.

Valery Rashkin. Photo with personal FB page The chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, initiated a case of group illegal hunting (part 2 of article 258 of the Criminal Code) against the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Communist Party Valery Rashkin, according to the SK website. Rashkin threatens from 3 to 5 years in prison.

The FSB claims that it has detained three "Ukrainian agents" - Zinoviy Koval and his son Igor, who allegedly acted on instructions from the SBU, and "agent of the main intelligence department of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry" Oleksandr Tsylyk. According to the FSB, Kovali's father and son were recruited by Colonel Vasily Kovalyk, an employee of the Ternopil Region Security Service of Ukraine, who instructed them to collect information about strategic facilities for $10,000.

Photo: Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation At the meeting of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov, an agreement was reached in Stockholm on the new personal contact of the heads of state.

On the eve of possible negotiations with US President Joseph Biden, Vladimir Putin put forward a very clear condition that should reduce tension in relations between Russia and the civilized world. There is nothing new in this condition. If the West does not want a new big war, it must surrender Ukraine - and Georgia at the same time. This is how one can translate from the diplomatic language the requirement to "document in writing" the guarantees of NATO's non-expansion to the east.