{"id":517029,"date":"2026-02-13T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=517029"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:21:05","slug":"belarusian-special-forces-take-24th-place-at-uae-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-special-forces-take-24th-place-at-uae-competition","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Special Forces Take 24th Place At UAE Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarusian special forces officers have returned from the UAE SWAT Challenge 2026, which took place in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the Interior Ministry\u2019s press service, the SPBT \u201cAlmaz\u201d team was welcomed upon return by Interior Minister <b>Ivan Kubrakou<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI am glad to welcome you back on your native land. Well done! You represented our ministry with dignity. You performed well. There is always something to strive for, and that is normal. \u2018Almaz\u2019 has a special trait: you never stop at what you have achieved,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kubrakou also emphasized the importance of the experience gained at the competition and wished the officers to keep moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>The Interior Ministry\u2019s statement did not specify the result of the Belarusian team. According to the competition\u2019s official website, \u201cAlmaz\u201d placed 24th overall. The unit\u2019s team was the only representative from Belarus. A total of 109 teams took part in the competition this year. First and second place were taken by teams from Kazakhstan, while third place went to a team from China.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, Belarus was represented by three teams last year. At that time, \u201cAlmaz\u201d finished 19th, the SOBR team placed 33rd, and the Minsk OMON team placed 54th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian special forces officers have returned from the UAE SWAT Challenge 2026, which took place in the United Arab Emirates. As reported by the Interior Ministry\u2019s press service, the SPBT \u201cAlmaz\u201d team was welcomed upon return by Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakou. \u201cI am glad to welcome you back on your native land. Well done! You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":517028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/698edef64b082.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Special Forces Take 24th Place At UAE Competition"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517029","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=517029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}