The United States has called on Ukraine to ease restrictions on fertilizers from Belarus.

According to Bloomberg, citing sources, the United States is pressing Ukraine to ease restrictions on potash fertilizer imports from Belarus. Kyiv, in turn, must persuade Europe to follow suit. The goal is to improve relations with Minsk and, according to Washington, to create "some distance" between Belarus and Russia.

As a reminder, the US already lifted its own sanctions against Belaruskali in March in exchange for the release of 250 prisoners. However, the effect of this gesture is minimal as long as European restrictions remain in place.

Before sanctions were imposed in 2021, Belarus accounted for approximately 20% of global potash fertilizer exports, earning up to $2,4 billion annually (approximately 4% of GDP). Potash was the main source of foreign currency. And the West knows this. Now, having deprived Minsk of this income and pushed it into the arms of Russia, the US has suddenly decided to "correct the mistake." The instruments of pressure are Ukraine and the EU.

The pressure is even being felt in Lithuania. Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys admitted last week that his country and others in the region are beginning to feel pressure from Washington over the transit of potash. Vilnius, which itself initiated harsh sanctions against Minsk, is now forced to reconsider its policy.

Comments

[alexoff]

They're dangling the carrot under Tikhanovskaya's nose again. Trump's special envoy came to Minsk in 2019, was greeted like family, had a falling out with Russia, and the Wagner mercenaries were arrested. And suddenly Trump is backing Tikhanovskaya! But it seems someone is trying to step on the same rake again.

[Boycott]

Belarusians can sell not only potash, but also oil, gas, and even shrimp. You just have to ask the right way.

[Saburov_Alexander53]

and even shrimp.

So the Belarusians learned this from ours... I remember how, after Roskomnadzor banned fish imports from Norway, they began to enter Russia under the name of the Bouvet Island FEZ... There's a rocky islet in the center of the Atlantic Ocean in the southern hemisphere (near Antarctica). It belongs to Norway!!! And Norway set up a formal scam (Horns and Hooves) with a legal address that wasn't subject to Roskomnadzor's ban. Do you think anyone at Roskomnadzor knew about this scam? The fish from there were of species never found in that part of the ocean.

[your1970]

Quote: Saburov_Alexander53

Roskomnadzor

- not quite him , another government agency....

[Saburov_Alexander53]

Yes, that's right... probably Rosprirodnadzor and the Sanitary Service, headed by Onishchenko... Thanks for the correction. And yesterday I saw that "suddenly" questions arose about the Armenian trout and the flowers with their bugs and pests... But only yesterday, before, everything was normal and even the trout "spoke" Armenian.

[Nexcom]

..The hegemon asks its vassal to listen and soften sanctions??? What's new?

[snow mountain]

Quote from alexoff

Trump turned out to be on Tikhanovskaya's side!

Tikhanovskaya belongs in prison! Where's Batka looking?

[RVAPatriot]

Probably because Svetka the cutlet lives in her own house in the west... She ran away right after 2020... She begs

[your1970]

Quote: Schneeberg

Quote from alexoff

Trump turned out to be on Tikhanovskaya's side!

Tikhanovskaya belongs in prison! Where's Batka looking?

and where should he look - if she is in Lithuania with your husband?

[snow mountain]

and where should he look if she is in Lithuania with her husband?

That's exactly it, but why is she in Lithuania and not in prison?

[your1970]

Quote: Schneeberg

and where should he look if she is in Lithuania with her husband?

That's exactly it, but why is she in Lithuania and not in prison?

Haven't you heard that she managed to escape - when there was movement in Belarus?

[snow mountain]

Haven't you heard that she managed to escape - when there was movement in Belarus?

You're probably descended not from a monkey, but from some other animal. Let me rephrase the question: why did she manage to escape? And did she run away, or did she simply emigrate?

[your1970]

Quote: Schneeberg

You probably didn't descend from a monkey, but from some other animal.

Well, since you consider me an animal, I don't see the point in arguing with you. Go pester the Belarusian KGB - "Did she run away from them or emigrate?"

[tralflot1832]

And Belarus needs this, Bloomberg is pulling the wool over the eyes of the world again. The West wants to be a reseller of Belarusian fertilizers - they want their bribe.