The United States closed its embassy in the capital of Belarus, a neighbor of Ukraine, and all American staff have left the country, officials announced Feb. 28. Belarus shares borders with Ukraine and Russia and has been letting the Russian military send troops through its space to bring attacks from additional fronts against Ukrainian forces, U.S. officials say. “The Russians are clearly moving what they need to move inside their own country and in Belarus as they see fit,” a senior U.S. official told reporters over the weekend. Julie Fisher, the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, said the move to close the embassy in Minsk came in part because of Belarus’s “complicity in Russia’s war against Ukraine.” “Belarusian authorities have taken a series of hostile actions to limit [the embassy’s] ability to work with the Belarusian people and advance America’s interests, including forced staff reductions, closure of USAID Belarus and …