{"id":540474,"date":"2026-05-08T16:26:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=540474"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:00:12","slug":"heavy-rain-floods-seven-road-sections-in-minsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/heavy-rain-floods-seven-road-sections-in-minsk","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain Floods Seven Road Sections in Minsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Following a heavy downpour in Minsk, seven sections of roads have been flooded. Most of the flooding occurred in the Frunzenski District, the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mchs112by\/12717\">Emergency Situations Ministry reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven trolleybus routes and twelve bus routes were temporarily suspended. As of 4:15 p.m., traffic congestion in Minsk had reached the maximum 10-point level.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency workers and \u043a\u043e\u043c\u043c\u0443\u043d\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0435 services are carrying out operations to deal with the consequences of the flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters are warning of another heavy rain overnight into Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_540422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-540422\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-540422\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-08_16-16-35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-08_16-16-35.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-08_16-16-35-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-08_16-16-35-1200x530.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-08_16-16-35-768x339.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-08_16-16-35-870x384.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-540422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from social media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_540423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-540423\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-540423\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-08_16-16-30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-08_16-16-30.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-08_16-16-30-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-08_16-16-30-1200x530.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-08_16-16-30-768x339.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-08_16-16-30-870x384.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-540423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from social media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_97629\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LWYQrDfH0zY?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<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0420\u044b\u043d\u043e\u043a \u0416\u0434\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447\u0438 \u0437\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043f\u0438\u043b\u043e \u043f\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0435 \u0434\u043e\u0436\u0434\u044f\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Voa0J4YEHJI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a heavy downpour in Minsk, seven sections of roads have been flooded. Most of the flooding occurred in the Frunzenski District, the Emergency Situations Ministry reported. Eleven trolleybus routes and twelve bus routes were temporarily suspended. As of 4:15 p.m., traffic congestion in Minsk had reached the maximum 10-point level. Emergency workers and \u043a\u043e\u043c\u043c\u0443\u043d\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0435 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":540473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fdfa7f98039.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Heavy Rain Floods Seven Road Sections in Minsk"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540474","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=540474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}