Kellog helped rating a win for the peace efforts by the Trump administration.
Whereas the scenario within the Center East retains escalating, with unpredictable developments forward, there are numerous different features of the US overseas coverage unfolding, and a few convey quite a lot of hope of a greater tomorrow.
After a go to by Donald J. Trump’s Particular Envoy Keith Kellog to Belarusian chief Lukashenko, at least 14 political prisoners have been launched, together with Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a number one Belarus opposition determine.
Tsikhanouski was freed on yesterday (22), after greater than 5 years in jail. He was pushed throughout the border into Lithuania and reunited together with his spouse Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, chief of the exiled Belarus opposition.
5 Belarusians, three Poles, two Latvians, two Japanese, one Estonian and one Swede have been freed in complete.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with US Presidential Particular Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg in Minsk pic.twitter.com/4pDqMhCp2l
— Sprinter Observer (@SprinterObserve) June 21, 2025
Reuters reported:
“Lukashenko issued pardons for all these launched on Saturday in response to a U.S. request, his spokeswoman Natalya Eismont mentioned. In an announcement, she mentioned the Belarusians who have been freed had been ‘convicted of extremist and terrorist exercise’.
She mentioned the choice to launch Tsikhanouski was ‘taken by the president strictly on humanitarian issues with the intention of household reunification’.”
Right here, @Tsihanouskaya heard her husband Siarhei Tsikhanouski’s voice for the primary time in 4.5 years – after 2 years and three months of full incommunicado detention.
“Sure, we’ll see one another quickly.
Pay attention, [things are] already higher now. I’m so comfortable to listen to your voice!
I… pic.twitter.com/wTvOeBaoe4— Franak Viačorka (@franakviacorka) June 21, 2025
“[Spokeswoman] Eismont mentioned Kellogg’s talks with Lukashenko had begun on Friday night and lasted 6-1/2 hours over dinner, masking the Ukraine battle, the Center East, relations between Russia, Belarus and China, and sanctions coverage.
‘It was night time when it ended’, she mentioned. ‘The topics mentioned have been as present as could be imagined. They talked about issues that concern your entire world’.”
My husband Siarhei is free! It’s onerous to explain the enjoyment in my coronary heart.
Thanks, @POTUS, @SPE_Kellogg, @JohnPCoale, DAS Christopher W. Smith, @StateDept & our allies, for all of your efforts.
We’re not achieved. 1150 political prisoners stay behind bars. All should be launched. pic.twitter.com/MhngqBHFq3
— Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (@Tsihanouskaya) June 21, 2025
“European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen mentioned the discharge was ‘unbelievable information and a strong image of hope for all of the political prisoners struggling beneath the brutal Lukashenka (sic) regime’.”
Expensive Sviatlana @Tsihanouskaya, that is unbelievable information and a strong image of hope for all of the political prisoners struggling beneath the brutal Lukashenka regime.
Europe continues to name for his or her speedy launch. https://t.co/NSXw6gfBSm
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) June 21, 2025
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