Ukraine demands to impose sanctions against Belarus calling it co-agressor

The Rada urged that Belarus be designated as a “co-aggressor” and that sanctions be imposed against it.

On Thursday, members of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada filed a measure demanding that Belarus be recognized as a “co-aggressor” and that sanctions be imposed on Minsk.

“According to international law, Belarus is a co-aggressor because it voluntarily allowed the Russian Federation’s Armed Forces to commit acts of aggression against Ukraine on its territory.”

Thanks to such support, Russian troops approached Kyiv two days later, capturing the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the cities of Slavutich, Irpen, the villages of Ivankov, Gostomel, Buchu and other settlements in the north of Ukraine,” the explanatory note to the document says.

According to the text of the bill, its main goal is the introduction by Ukraine of special economic and other restrictive measures against Belarus, providing, in particular, for the development of a mechanism for the forced seizure of objects of property rights of Belarus as a state “actively supporting the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.”

The deputies also propose to expand the list of grounds for depriving Ukrainian citizenship of persons with dual citizenship of Ukraine and Belarus.