{"id":535923,"date":"2026-04-23T15:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=535923"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:15:35","slug":"zelenskyy-belarus-should-not-be-drawn-into-russia-s-fantastical-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/zelenskyy-belarus-should-not-be-drawn-into-russia-s-fantastical-ideas","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy: Belarus Should Not Be Drawn Into Russia\u2019s Fantastical Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian President <b>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/b> commented on the possibility of an offensive against Ukraine from Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>According to Zelenskyy, Russia has many \u201cdisturbing ideas\u201d, but he does not want Belarus to become involved in them.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cRegarding the threat of an offensive from Belarus. Look, the Russians have many different disturbing and fantastical ideas. Therefore, we very much do not want Belarus to be drawn into these fantastical ideas so that they turn into a terrible reality\u201d<\/i>, Zelenskyy told journalists on April 23.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Zelenskyy\u2019s office <b>Kyrylo Budanov<\/b> commented on possible threats from Belarus as follows:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cAnything is possible in life. But there are intelligence agencies that are closely monitoring this. Certain signs of threats may exist \u2014 this can never be ruled out. This means, as a former head of the HUR, I can tell you that vigilance must be increased. First and foremost, by the intelligence services. They have already done this, so do not worry \u2014 nothing will happen unexpectedly\u201d<\/i>, Budanov said (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.novyny.live\/budanov-oznaki-zagrozi-z-boku-bilorusi-mozhut-isnuvati-323179.html\">quote<\/a> via novyny.live).<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Zelenskyy said Russia was trying to draw Belarus into the war and warned the \u201cde facto leadership\u201d of Belarus that Ukraine is ready to defend its territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on the possibility of an offensive against Ukraine from Belarus. According to Zelenskyy, Russia has many \u201cdisturbing ideas\u201d, but he does not want Belarus to become involved in them. \u201cRegarding the threat of an offensive from Belarus. Look, the Russians have many different disturbing and fantastical ideas. Therefore, we very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":535922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69ea0d6a64ec3.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Zelenskyy: Belarus Should Not Be Drawn Into Russia\u2019s Fantastical Ideas"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284,143090],"tags":[143118,143123],"class_list":["post-535923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535923","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=535923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}