Belarus selling rapeseed oil sourced from occupied Ukraine to the EU, RFE/RL finds

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Belarus selling rapeseed oil sourced from occupied Ukraine to the EU, RFE/RL finds

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. In June 2022, at a time when swathes of fertile land in southern Ukraine had recently fallen under Russian military occupation, Belarus’s pro-Moscow leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenko, boasted of growing European demand for his country’s rapeseed oil. “Even in this period of crazy sanctions, Europe is asking, ‘Give us rapeseed oil,'” Lukashenko …