President hopes European Council will agree to more sanctions on Belarus

Poland wants the European Council to impose more sanctions on Belarus in retaliation for hybrid attacks, Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, said on Tuesday in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Duda said after talks with his Lithuanian counterpart Gitanas Nauseda that the crisis was not only affecting Poland but also Lithuania and Latvia. "We do hope the European Council decides about further sanctions on the Belarusian regime... because this kind of support from the European Union, as a community, is certainly what our countries need today," he said.