{"id":498259,"date":"2025-11-24T15:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=498259"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:58:09","slug":"lukashenka-hopes-to-end-the-drag-in-ukraine-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-hopes-to-end-the-drag-in-ukraine-soon","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Hopes to End the \u201cDrag in Ukraine\u201d Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Alyaksandr<\/b> <strong>Lukashenka<\/strong> believes that agreements to end the Russian-Ukrainian war may be reached in the near future. He voiced this idea while meeting with Russian governor <strong>Mikhail Yevrayev<\/strong>, using the dismissive expression \u201ctyagomotina\u201d (\u201cdrag\u201d, \u201ctedious mess\u201d) to refer to the war.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned the conflict while speaking about growing transport links between Belarus and Russia. Lukashenka stressed that a trip to Minsk for Yevrayev should not feel like a foreign assignment.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe don\u2019t consider Yaroslavl Region, or Russia as a whole, to be foreign or abroad. Officially, if someone goes on a business trip abroad \u2014 then it\u2019s abroad, and if to Russia \u2014 then it\u2019s to Russia. It\u2019s separated. So Yaroslavl Region is not foreign to us,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka also addressed Russia\u2019s ambassador to Belarus, <strong>Boris Gryzlov<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe are especially grateful to Boris <\/i><em>Vyacheslavovich <\/em><i>for strengthening the Minsk\u2013Moscow route. More and more of our people are visiting Moscow, which is close to us. Connections are being restored, and Boris <em>Vyacheslavovich<\/em> is forced to add planes, helicopters, and trains to transport people. Recently one more train was added. Not enough? Not enough! Soon, as agreed with President Putin, we will try to build a high-speed line,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>After this, Lukashenka returned to the topic of the war. In his view, ending it would allow him and Putin to focus on domestic affairs.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cWe\u2019ll finish this drag, I think, in the near future in Ukraine, and we\u2019ll take up our internal matters so that our people live better and understand that there is no land better than ours,\u201d<\/i> Lukashenka concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyaksandr Lukashenka believes that agreements to end the Russian-Ukrainian war may be reached in the near future. He voiced this idea while meeting with Russian governor Mikhail Yevrayev, using the dismissive expression \u201ctyagomotina\u201d (\u201cdrag\u201d, \u201ctedious mess\u201d) to refer to the war. He mentioned the conflict while speaking about growing transport links between Belarus and Russia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":498258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/69245666ad71a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Hopes to End the \u201cDrag in Ukraine\u201d Soon"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}