BRUSSELS—The European Union imposed wide-ranging economic sanctions on Belarus for the first time on June 24, focusing on its main export industries and access to finance a month after it forced a Ryanair flight to land in Minsk and arrested an opposition journalist who was on board.
The measures include banning EU businesses from importing goods or doing business with Belarusian companies in sectors including banking, petroleum products, and potash, a salt used in fertilizer that is the country’s main export.
