Members of the Lutsk community express solidarity with their colleague, Lutsk City Council deputy Ihor Huz, who is among imprisoned Ukrainians in Minsk. This is stated in a statement distributed today by the "Lutsk European" faction.
Supporting the active actions of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and, personally, Borys Tarasiuk, the "Lutsk European" faction sees it as appropriate to apply a broader range of tough foreign policy measures toward the Belarusian authorities. Among such measures could be local economic sanctions and restrictions on crossing the Ukrainian border for civil servants and law enforcement officers of Belarus.
"The struggle for the immediate release of our compatriots," the faction's statement reads, "must become an example of the new Ukrainian government's care for every citizen of our state, no matter what difficult circumstances they find themselves in."
Lutsk deputies are convinced that their colleague Ihor Huz and his associates were guided exclusively by the ideas of the struggle for democracy and did not violate either the legislation of the neighboring country or the principles of the international community.
Press center of the "Lutsk European" group