Today Ukraine applied a package of sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko, and we will significantly intensify countermeasures against all forms of his assistance in the killing of Ukrainians. We will work with partners so that this has a global effect. In the second half of 2025, on the territory of Belarus, the Russians deployed a system of relay stations to control attack drones, which increased the Russian army’s capabilities to carry out strikes on our northern regions – from the Kyiv region to Volyn. The Russians would not have been able to carry out some of the attacks, particularly on energy facilities and railways in our regions, without such assistance from Belarus. More than 3,000 Belarusian enterprises have been put at the service of Russia’s war and supply machinery, equipment, and components categorized as “critically important,” including components for the production of missiles that terrorize our cities and villages. Infrastructure is also being developed to deploy intermediate-range missiles – Oreshnik – on the territory of Belarus, which is an obvious threat not only to Ukrainians but to all Europeans. Alexander Lukashenko has not only allowed Oreshnik to be deployed on Belarusian territory. Last year, the country’s enterprises supplied Russia with critical components, parts, and manufacturing base for this weapon. This continues in 2026. Alexander Lukashenko has long been trading Belarus’s sovereignty for the continuation of his personal power, helping Russians circumvent global sanctions for this aggression, actively justifying Russia’s war, and now further increasing his own participation in scaling and prolonging the war. There will be special consequences for this.(Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський)