{"id":519596,"date":"2026-02-20T17:49:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=519596"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:45:00","slug":"belarusian-defense-ministry-turns-handshake-between-khrenin-and-us-military-attache-into-public-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-defense-ministry-turns-handshake-between-khrenin-and-us-military-attache-into-public-show","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Defense Ministry Turns Handshake Between Khrenin And US Military Attach\u00e9 Into Public Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On February 20, a ceremonial gathering dedicated to the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland and the Armed Forces is being held at the Palace of the Republic in Minsk. Among the guests was the Defense Attach\u00e9 at the US Embassy in Belarus, Lieutenant Colonel <strong>Daniel Benson<\/strong>. The Belarusian Defense Ministry attached particular significance to this fact, calling it a \u201cmaster class in transparency\u201d by Defense Minister <b>Viktar Khrenin<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry\u2019s press service recalled that the first meeting between Khrenin and Benson took place during the Belarusian-Russian \u201cZapad-2025\u201d exercises and emphasized that the US attach\u00e9 spoke Russian with Khrenin on this occasion.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe time is not easy now. I am glad you came to share with us this holiday dedicated to the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland and the Armed Forces,\u201d<\/em> Khrenin told Benson.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Ministry also hinted at dialogue.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Belarusian defense establishment knows that dialogue is possible only if both sides make efforts,\u201d<\/em> the press release said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_82095\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/402RiqAPzaY?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=ru&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=0&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 20, a ceremonial gathering dedicated to the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland and the Armed Forces is being held at the Palace of the Republic in Minsk. Among the guests was the Defense Attach\u00e9 at the US Embassy in Belarus, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Benson. The Belarusian Defense Ministry attached particular significance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":519595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69997ebde3058.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Defense Ministry Turns Handshake Between Khrenin And US Military Attach\u00e9 Into Public Show"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519596","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\/519596","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}