{"id":533243,"date":"2026-04-11T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=533243"},"modified":"2026-04-11T20:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:36:27","slug":"ukrainian-troops-capture-belarusian-citizen-fighting-on-russia-s-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ukrainian-troops-capture-belarusian-citizen-fighting-on-russia-s-side","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Troops Capture Belarusian Citizen Fighting on Russia\u2019s Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s separate mechanised brigade \u201cMahura\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100094668439085\/posts\/809424112223196\/\">captured<\/a> a Belarusian citizen who had been fighting on the side of Russia. A soldier from the brigade carried the wounded Belarusian mercenary for about 10 kilometres across mined fields.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian citizen, who identified himself as <strong>Yury Vasilievich Malyshchytski<\/strong>, had signed a contract with the Russian army and was fighting on Ukrainian territory. At some point, he decided to surrender and headed toward Ukrainian positions, but stepped on a mine. Soldiers of the 47th brigade found the wounded man after hearing his cries and carried him off the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I carried him so that he could be exchanged for one of our guys,&#8221;<\/em> said a soldier with the call sign \u201cLyut\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_13786\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tlO1vcgugtU?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>Ukraine\u2019s separate mechanised brigade \u201cMahura\u201d captured a Belarusian citizen who had been fighting on the side of Russia. A soldier from the brigade carried the wounded Belarusian mercenary for about 10 kilometres across mined fields. The Belarusian citizen, who identified himself as Yury Vasilievich Malyshchytski, had signed a contract with the Russian army and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":533242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69da869ea7db9.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ukrainian Troops Capture Belarusian Citizen Fighting on Russia\u2019s Side"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143122,143123],"class_list":["post-533243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-rossija","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533243","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=533243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}