{"id":502792,"date":"2025-12-15T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=502792"},"modified":"2025-12-15T15:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:40:16","slug":"zelenskyy-speaks-with-belarusian-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/zelenskyy-speaks-with-belarusian-political-prisoners","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy Speaks With Belarusian Political Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian President <b>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/b> has spoken with Belarusian political prisoners who were released and expelled to Ukraine on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThis morning I spoke with freed political prisoners from Belarus. I highly value the kind words about Ukraine and Ukrainians and the clear, principled position regarding Russian aggression. This is important. Ukraine will continue to help everyone who helps us defend independence and human lives,\u201d<\/i> Zelenskyy said following the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>A photo published by the Ukrainian president\u2019s press service shows that the video call included Viktar Babaryka, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aliaksandr Fiaduta<\/span>, Maryna Zolatava, Maria Kalesnikava, Maksim Znak, and Uladzimir Labkovich.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_502777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-502777\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-502777 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-15_14-40-35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-15_14-40-35.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-15_14-40-35-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-15_14-40-35-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-15_14-40-35-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/photo_2025-12-15_14-40-35-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-502777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: The Ukrainian president\u2019s press service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has spoken with Belarusian political prisoners who were released and expelled to Ukraine on Saturday. \u201cThis morning I spoke with freed political prisoners from Belarus. I highly value the kind words about Ukraine and Ukrainians and the clear, principled position regarding Russian aggression. This is important. Ukraine will continue to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":502791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/694001b6713e6.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Zelenskyy Speaks With Belarusian Political Prisoners"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502792","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=502792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}