{"id":519098,"date":"2026-02-19T17:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=519098"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:01:10","slug":"photo-fact-ryzhankou-absent-from-group-photo-of-peace-council-participants-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/photo-fact-ryzhankou-absent-from-group-photo-of-peace-council-participants-in-washington","title":{"rendered":"Photo Fact: Ryzhankou Absent From Group Photo of Peace Council Participants in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Media outlets have published the first group photos of participants in the inaugural meeting of the Peace Council in Washington on February 19, 2026. As reported earlier, despite having received an invitation, <b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> declined to travel to the United States. The announced Belarusian foreign minister, <b>Maksim Ryzhankou<\/b>, is also absent from the photos.<\/p>\n<p>As Radio Svaboda reported, citing official US sources, <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ryzhankou-also-will-not-attend-peace-council-media\">there will be no representatives of Belarus at the February 19 meeting at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_519084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-519084\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-519084\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ap26050530204941.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ap26050530204941.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ap26050530204941-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ap26050530204941-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ap26050530204941-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ap26050530204941-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ap26050530204941-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-519084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump speaks during a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Mark Schiefelbein)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media outlets have published the first group photos of participants in the inaugural meeting of the Peace Council in Washington on February 19, 2026. As reported earlier, despite having received an invitation, Alyaksandr Lukashenka declined to travel to the United States. The announced Belarusian foreign minister, Maksim Ryzhankou, is also absent from the photos. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":519097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699725bbd789e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Photo Fact: Ryzhankou Absent From Group Photo of Peace Council Participants in Washington"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519098","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=519098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}