The Department of Transportation has banned the sale of air tickets to Belarus. It issued an order proposing to ban ticket sales between the US and Belarus.
It comes a month after Belarus forced a Ryanair plane to land in Minsk and promptly arrested a journalist onboard who had been a critic of government policy.
President Biden condemned Belarus’ actions as a ‘direct affront to international norms’ as the US imposed sanctions on various officials in the country. The European Union also banned flights over Belarus airspace.
