President Alexander Lukasshenko of the Republic of Belarus has threatened to stop its gas supplies to Europe if sanctions are enacted concerning an increasing migrant crisis at the nation’s western border.
Multitudes of people particularly from Iraq, Syria and Yemen are currently camping at the border with Poland going through freezing environments as they long to travel across Europe.
European Union officials have charged Belarus of arousing the dilemma to sabotage its security, an allegation in which Belarus had denied.
In response, the EU is reportedly setting up a latest collection of sanctions.
Although on yesterday, November 11, 2021, the country’s long-standing authoritarian leader cautioned that if the EU imposed further sanctions on Belarus they would retaliate.
“We are heating Europe but they are threatening us'” states President Lukasshenko denoting a Russian gas pipeline that extends through Belarus and into Europe.
The Belarus president had given a scenario saying what might happen if the country ended natural gas supplies to Europe, adding that “the leadership of Poland, Lithuanians and other unintelligent people should think before they speak.”
Relatively, these comments had spurred fresh anxieties in the middle of exacerbating natural gas shortages and escalating prices in Europe.