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The outreach to Belarus’s autocratic leader, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, comes as the country has released at least 14 political prisoners.
By Andrew Higgins and Tomas Dapkus
Unable to broker peace deals in Ukraine and the Middle East, President Trump sent a special envoy to Belarus for talks on Saturday with President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Russia’s closest ally and a central figure in a decades long struggle between East and West in the former Soviet Union.
Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general and Mr. Trump’s envoy for Russia and Ukraine, held talks with Mr. Lukashenko in Minsk, Belarus’s capital, the first meeting between a senior White House official and the Belarusian strongman in more than five years.
