{"id":540646,"date":"2026-05-09T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=540646"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:47:38","slug":"very-good-indeed-lukashenka-praises-victory-parade-on-red-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/very-good-indeed-lukashenka-praises-victory-parade-on-red-square","title":{"rendered":"\u201cVery Good Indeed\u201d \u2014 Lukashenka Praises Victory Parade on Red Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> gave a positive assessment of the Victory Day parade in Moscow. Speaking to journalists, he admitted that he had been concerned about the shortened format of the event but said he was satisfied with the outcome.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI was worried that you shortened it, and I wondered how it would turn out. I\u2019ll tell you \u2014 it was very good indeed. I have very good impressions,\u201d<\/i> his press service <a href=\"https:\/\/president.gov.by\/ru\/events\/aleksandr-lukasenko-v-moskve-prinimaet-ucastie-v-torzestvah-v-cest-dna-pobedy-1778310352\">quoted<\/a> him as saying.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cEven if they hadn\u2019t invited me, I would have come to my own Red Square. To my own Moscow. I was born when Moscow was the capital,\u201d<\/i> he said. <i>\u201cAs current times have shown, no one can prevent us from celebrating this Great Victory. It is our heritage. We cannot lose it.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, the <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/trump-announces-three-day-ceasefire-between-ukraine-and-russia\">United States announced a ceasefire<\/a> between Ukraine and Russia for May 9, 10, and 11, along with a planned 1000-for-1000 prisoner exchange. Zelenskyy confirmed the three-day ceasefire and signed a decree \u201cOn Holding a Parade in Moscow.\u201d The document authorizes the parade in Moscow and excludes Red Square from the list of targets for Ukrainian weapons systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyaksandr Lukashenka gave a positive assessment of the Victory Day parade in Moscow. Speaking to journalists, he admitted that he had been concerned about the shortened format of the event but said he was satisfied with the outcome. \u201cI was worried that you shortened it, and I wondered how it would turn out. I\u2019ll tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":540645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69ff02be85f8d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"\u201cVery Good Indeed\u201d \u2014 Lukashenka Praises Victory Parade on Red Square"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143122],"class_list":["post-540646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-rossija"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540646","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=540646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}