“At a meeting in Brussels, the leaders of the 27 member states also told EU airlines not to fly over Belarus, and promised further economic sanctions.”
Two days after the forced landing, the EU closed its skies to Belarusian airlines. Minsk answered with a video of Roman Protasevich confessing, one that appears to have been recorded under duress. His father fears he will be tortured. No sanction gets him off that plane.