{"id":544153,"date":"2026-05-21T12:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=544153"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:38:14","slug":"lukashenka-arrives-for-nuclear-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-arrives-for-nuclear-exercises","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Arrives for Nuclear Exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b><\/strong> arrived today at a training exercise involving military units responsible for the combat use of nuclear weapons and nuclear support. This was reported by his press service.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka is visiting a missile brigade in the Asipovichy District. Chief of the General Staff <strong><b>Pavel Muraveika<\/b><\/strong> briefed him on the concept of the exercise. Lukashenka inspected the missile brigade\u2019s vehicle fleet and visited the commander\u2019s command post.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise has been taking place in Belarus since May 19. Russia is conducting nuclear manoeuvres simultaneously. As reported by the Russian Defence Ministry this morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/nuclear-munitions-delivered-to-field-storage-sites-in-belarus-russian-defense-ministry\">nuclear munitions<\/a> were delivered to field storage sites as part of the exercise.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_544146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-544146\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-544146 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-21_13-18-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-21_13-18-28.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-21_13-18-28-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-21_13-18-28-1200x674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-21_13-18-28-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo_2026-05-21_13-18-28-711x400.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-544146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Pul Pervogo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliaksandr Lukashenka arrived today at a training exercise involving military units responsible for the combat use of nuclear weapons and nuclear support. This was reported by his press service. Lukashenka is visiting a missile brigade in the Asipovichy District. Chief of the General Staff Pavel Muraveika briefed him on the concept of the exercise. Lukashenka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":544152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a0ee0995c2be.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Arrives for Nuclear Exercises"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143291,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-army","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544153","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=544153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}