US Department of Transport has banned the sale of air tickets to Belarus

An exception to the ban can only be the case when it comes to US national security, is specified in the document of the Ministry of Transport.

The measure was announced on July 2, and there have been no objections from Washington since then. Therefore, the restriction comes into force, the department specified.

As the AP points out, the United States does not have direct flights with Belarus. Reuters called the ban symbolic, since travel agencies in the United States already sell a fairly small number of tours to Belarus.

It's worth reminding that Washington suspended flights with Belarus after the forced landing of a Ryanair aircraft flying from Athens to Vilnius and was landed in Minsk with the help of a MiG-29 military aircraft. Allegedly, there was a bomb on board the passenger liner. After the plane landed, the former editor-in-chief of the telegram channel NEXTA, Roman Protasevich, and his girlfriend, a Russian woman, Sofia Sapega, were detained on board.