{"id":521536,"date":"2026-02-27T17:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=521536"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:11:58","slug":"belarusian-detained-in-ukraine-for-illegal-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-detained-in-ukraine-for-illegal-stay","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Detained in Ukraine for Illegal Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A Belarusian citizen who lived in Odesa and worked there as a translator has been detained for illegal stay in Ukraine. A court ordered that he be placed in a temporary holding facility for foreigners pending forced deportation, Radio Svaboda reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources familiar with the case, the Belarusian, identified as <strong>Dzmitry K.<\/strong>, arrived in Ukraine through Odesa airport and has not travelled to Belarus since.<\/p>\n<p>The Odesa Regional Employment Centre issued his employers a permit to employ a foreign national valid from March 4, 2021, to March 23, 2024. In 2023, the permit was revoked. On this basis, the migration service annulled his residence permit.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2024, the Belarusian was detained and cited for violating the rules governing the stay of foreigners in Ukraine. He was fined around $120. The court ordered Dzmitry to leave Ukraine for his country of origin or a third country. He neither paid the fine nor left the country.<\/p>\n<p>On February 17 this year, Dzmitry was detained by officers of the regional police\u2019s Strategic Investigations Department. The court ruled that there were no grounds preventing his forced deportation from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>As the Belarusian did not have documents allowing him to legally remain in Ukraine, the court decided to place him for six months, until August 17, in a temporary holding facility for foreigners and stateless persons illegally present on Ukrainian territory, pending forced deportation. The validity of Dzmitry\u2019s Belarusian passport expires in May this year.<\/p>\n<p>Dzmitry\u2019s lawyer has appealed the court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Belarusian citizen who lived in Odesa and worked there as a translator has been detained for illegal stay in Ukraine. A court ordered that he be placed in a temporary holding facility for foreigners pending forced deportation, Radio Svaboda reports. According to sources familiar with the case, the Belarusian, identified as Dzmitry K., arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":521535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69a1c2521d382.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Detained in Ukraine for Illegal Stay"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521536","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\/521536","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=521536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}