Video footage shared by opposition aide Franak Viačorka showed emotional reunions, including Maria Kalesnikava embracing her sister and former presidential candidate Viktar Babaryka meeting exiled colleagues in the Polish capital. The release was brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, John Coale, and included Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski. Following the release, Washington eased sanctions on three Belarusian potash companies, while the European Union expanded its own restrictive measures against Minsk. Polish-Belarusian journalist and activist Andrzej Poczobut remains imprisoned in Belarus.