{"id":520352,"date":"2026-02-24T15:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=520352"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:31:42","slug":"ukrainian-presidential-office-assesses-risk-of-belarus-being-drawn-into-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ukrainian-presidential-office-assesses-risk-of-belarus-being-drawn-into-war","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Presidential Office Assesses Risk of Belarus Being Drawn Into War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine <strong>Pavlo Palisa<\/strong>\u00a0assessed the risk of Belarus being drawn into the war in an interview with Ukrinform. Overall, his remarks echoed what Ukrainian President <b>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/b> said earlier in an interview with Zerkalo published yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIt is more convenient for Russia to use the territory of Belarus as a territory \u2014 for pressure and for the deployment of missiles. At the same time, there is already active use of corridors for the passage of \u2018Shaheds\u2019 using communications towers to control drone flights.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Direct involvement of the Belarusian army entails risks for Lukashenka and has questionable combat value, but as an instrument of pressure and blackmail such a threat is being used,\u201d<\/i> Palisa said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the Ukrainian side is constantly raising the issue of the deployment of \u201cOreshnik\u201d in Belarus in its communication with partners.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThis topic is constantly present in conversations and during our briefings. Embassy representatives ask about the details of the deployment of \u2018Oreshnik\u2019 on the territory of Belarus. Partners understand perfectly well that the deployment of such a nuclear-capable delivery system on the territory of Belarus poses a threat to them as well \u2014 our Western partners and Europe first and foremost,\u201d<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Pavlo Palisa\u00a0assessed the risk of Belarus being drawn into the war in an interview with Ukrinform. Overall, his remarks echoed what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier in an interview with Zerkalo published yesterday. \u201cIt is more convenient for Russia to use the territory of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":520351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699d9a3389522.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ukrainian Presidential Office Assesses Risk of Belarus Being Drawn Into War"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520352","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\/520352","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=520352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}