{"id":541493,"date":"2026-05-12T15:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=541493"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:07:13","slug":"lithuanian-citizen-detained-in-belarus-on-suspicion-of-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lithuanian-citizen-detained-in-belarus-on-suspicion-of-espionage","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Citizen Detained in Belarus on Suspicion of Espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The KGB has detained Lithuanian citizen <b>Miroslavas Trotskis<\/b> in Belarus. It is claimed that Trotskis was an agent of Lithuanian intelligence services with the codename \u201cRingo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State television channel ONT described Trotskis as a former Lithuanian security officer. He allegedly traveled to Belarus under the pretext of restoring his father\u2019s house, collected information about strategic and military facilities, and stayed with relatives for cover purposes.<\/p>\n<p>It is claimed that Trotskis had been under surveillance by Belarusian counterintelligence from the moment he entered Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>The video released by state media shows the moment of Trotskis\u2019s detention on a road and a fragment of an interrogation in which the man apologizes for having \u201ccaused harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_541466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-541466\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-541466\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-12-at-15.26.59.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-12-at-15.26.59.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-12-at-15.26.59-300x187.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-12-at-15.26.59-1200x749.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-12-at-15.26.59-768x479.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-12-at-15.26.59-641x400.jpeg 641w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-541466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detention of Trotskis. Screenshot from video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KGB has detained Lithuanian citizen Miroslavas Trotskis in Belarus. It is claimed that Trotskis was an agent of Lithuanian intelligence services with the codename \u201cRingo.\u201d State television channel ONT described Trotskis as a former Lithuanian security officer. He allegedly traveled to Belarus under the pretext of restoring his father\u2019s house, collected information about strategic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":541492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0334148cb53.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lithuanian Citizen Detained in Belarus on Suspicion of Espionage"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541493","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=541493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}