EU cuts air links with Belarus over forced plane landing

EU leaders agreed to cut air links with Belarus on Monday, as leader Alexander Lukashenko’s regime paraded a dissident journalist arrested after his flight was forced to land in Minsk.

Strongman Lukashenko sparked international outrage by dispatching a fighter jet Sunday to intercept a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying wanted reporter Roman Protasevich, 26, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega.