{"id":537320,"date":"2026-04-28T15:08:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=537320"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:19:19","slug":"poczobut-asked-about-returning-to-belarus-after-exchange-tusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/poczobut-asked-about-returning-to-belarus-after-exchange-tusk","title":{"rendered":"Poczobut Asked About Returning to Belarus After Exchange \u2014 Tusk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><b>Andrzej Poczobut<\/b><\/strong> asked about the possibility of returning to Belarus after the exchange at the border, Polish Prime Minister <strong><b>Donald Tusk<\/b><\/strong>, who met the political prisoner there, wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Unbreakable. \u2018Will I be able to return there?\u2019 were his first words. \u2018Only you can decide. Now you are a free man,\u2019 I replied,&#8221;<\/em> Tusk wrote.<\/p>\n<p>It is recalled that earlier today a 5-for-5 exchange took place at the Polish-Belarusian border. Three Polish citizens and two Moldovan citizens were handed over to Poland from Belarus. The KGB said they had been convicted of espionage in Belarus and Russia. Archaeologist <strong><b>Alexander Butyagin<\/b><\/strong>, who had been detained in Poland, was returned to Russia.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The exchange at the Polish-Belarusian border was the culmination of a complex diplomatic game lasting two years and full of dramatic turns. Success was achieved thanks to the excellent work of our services, diplomats and prosecutors, as well as the great support of our American, Romanian and Moldovan friends. I thank you all on behalf of Andrzej Poczobut and personally,&#8221;<\/em> Tusk said in another post commenting on the developments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"pl\" dir=\"ltr\">Niez\u0142omny. \u201eB\u0119d\u0119 m\u00f3g\u0142 tam wr\u00f3ci\u0107?\u201d &#8211; to by\u0142y jego pierwsze s\u0142owa. \u201eTylko ty decydujesz. Jeste\u015b ju\u017c wolnym cz\u0142owiekiem\u201d &#8211; odpowiedzia\u0142em. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U7i6rdcXd4\">pic.twitter.com\/U7i6rdcXd4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald Tusk (@donaldtusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/donaldtusk\/status\/2049096082336989371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrzej Poczobut asked about the possibility of returning to Belarus after the exchange at the border, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who met the political prisoner there, wrote on X. &#8220;Unbreakable. \u2018Will I be able to return there?\u2019 were his first words. \u2018Only you can decide. Now you are a free man,\u2019 I replied,&#8221; Tusk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":537319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69f0a5cad86ac.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Poczobut Asked About Returning to Belarus After Exchange \u2014 Tusk"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537320","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=537320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}