Kellog helped rating a win for the peace efforts by the Trump administration.
Whereas the state of affairs within the Center East retains escalating, with unpredictable developments forward, there are a lot of different elements of the US international 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, a minimum of 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 along with his spouse Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, chief of the exiled Belarus opposition.
5 Belarusians, three Poles, two Latvians, two Japanese, one Estonian and one Swede had 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 a press release, she mentioned the Belarusians who had 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 joyful 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, overlaying 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 themes mentioned had been as present as may be imagined. They talked about issues that concern your complete 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 accomplished. 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 ‘improbable information and a strong image of hope for all of the political prisoners struggling underneath the brutal Lukashenka (sic) regime’.”
Pricey Sviatlana @Tsihanouskaya, that is improbable information and a strong image of hope for all of the political prisoners struggling underneath 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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