On Friday, November 12, a European country announced the imposition of sanctions against Belarus due to the situation with migrants on Poland's eastern border. This was reported by Deutsche Welle on Twitter.
“German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announces new EU sanctions in response to Alexander Lukashenko's attempts to bring people to the borders of the EU states Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland,” the message reads.
Earlier, on Wednesday, Maas called for new EU sanctions against Belarus amid an escalating migrant crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border. He said in a statement that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is "unscrupulously exploiting" the migrants and sending them to the border region.
"We will sanction all those who participate in the targeted smuggling of migrants," the German foreign minister asserted while adding that the EU will push to "extend and tighten ... sanctions against Lukashenko's regime."
Maas said the images of the thousands of migrants at the Polish-Belarusian border are "appalling."