On November 11, the European Commission announced that it was currently discussing sanctions against Belarus over the migrant crisis, which listed the possibility of imposing sanctions on the party that triggered the crisis, Aeroflot.
This CONSIDERATION by the European Union is related to Warsaw, where the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that Aeroflot was involved in or assisted in organizing the transport of large numbers of refugees from the Middle East to the territory of the Republic of Belarus. Warsaw believes that the current immigration crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border is directly related to Russia, and the migration crisis can be said to have been planned and provoked by Russia.
On the same day, Aeroflot responded to Poland's accusations. Aeroflot said its airliner did not operate scheduled flights to Iraq and Syria, nor did it fly from Istanbul to Minsk. The Russian side pointed out that it is complicated for Iranian, Iraqi and Syrian citizens to travel to Belarus via Russia, because this requires obtaining a transit visa from Russia.
President Putin's spokesman, Peskov, said Aeroflot had stated that there were no "refugee lines" and that even if migrants were transported, they would not violate any current international norms.
Kalashnikov, chairman of the Committee on DUMA CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots, believes that the EU is trying to put pressure on Russia, which in turn put pressure on Belarus.
Lukashenko reacted strongly to the EU's announcement that sanctions were about to impose sanctions on Belarus, saying that if sanctions were introduced, Belarus would block the transit of EU goods and possibly cut off natural gas delivered to the EU through the Yamal-European energy pipeline. (November 12, 2021, by Liu Peng)