The Biden administration is expected to unveil new Belarus sanctions and a new executive order amid continued crackdowns by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko, CNN reports.
According to CNN, the actions were expected to be announced Monday, marking the one-year anniversary of the Eastern European country's election, which the international community condemned as fraudulent.
It was not immediately clear what the new sanctions would target.
It's worth noting that recently Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met with President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, and congressional lawmakers during her time in the United States capital.
During her briefing with the reporters in Washington D.C., she told that last month, she gave the Biden administration a specific list of targets she would like to see sanctioned.
Tsikhanouskaya told reporters that she delivered a list of companies that are monopolized by the regime of Lukashenko "and his cronies," including potash company Belaruskali, as well as oil, wood and steel enterprises.
The Belarusian opposition politician called on the administration to enact stronger sanctions, saying that she believed the initial tranches were more symbolic and "moral sanctions."
"They didn't hit the regime and I think that we really lost time," she said. Tsikhanouskaya said that the sectoral sanctions imposed by the European Union following Lukashenko's forced diversion of a Ryanair flight and arrest of a dissident Belarusian journalist on board were strong. The US could follow that policy, she said, "and also look at the possibility to impose sectoral sanctions on Lukashenko."