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i'm joined now by maryia sadouskaya—komlach, a journalist from belarus. thank you forjoining us.ean union reaction? thank you. this reaction was very much expected but the form and essence of it makes us raise eyebrows, why so late. the police violence was happening all of last week in belarus and it was credit that elections were not free and fair also last week. —— it was pretty clear. they waited for ten days presumably for the third part of the message which is to confirm that it wants to engage or ready to engage into the dialogue about the transition of power. so the message the eu is sending is threefold. it supports the people, which is great but it offers 53 million euro, which 50 million is to fight covid—i9 consequence is. i'm not sure people are going into the streets because they are sick and covid—i9 in belarus. in only 3 million is to support civil society and victims of repression. and then want introduced targeted sanctions but they targeted sanctions against the individuals in belarus have been in place since 2004 and have never brought any change. and even the