{"id":547395,"date":"2026-06-02T00:27:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=547395"},"modified":"2026-06-02T10:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:48:28","slug":"budanov-doubts-tsikhanouskaya-could-prevent-lukashenka-s-provocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/budanov-doubts-tsikhanouskaya-could-prevent-lukashenka-s-provocations","title":{"rendered":"Budanov Doubts Tsikhanouskaya Could Prevent Lukashenka&#8217;s Provocations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><b>Kyrylo Budanov<\/b><\/strong>, head of Ukraine&#8217;s Defence Intelligence, believes that Belarusian democratic movement leader <strong><b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b><\/strong> would not be able, &#8220;even in theory,&#8221; to prevent provocations originating from Belarusian territory.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks during the Security Architecture forum.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We must be strong and ready for anything, and then no one will have foolish ideas. Do we need anyone&#8217;s help to eliminate the very possibility of any provocations? That is never a bad thing. Can Ms. Tsikhanouskaya cope with this task? I will express a purely subjective opinion: no, she cannot, even in theory. But I will repeat my first point once again: we must be strong \u2014 and then everything will be fine, others will take us into account, and no one will do anything foolish,&#8221;<\/i> Budanov said.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed hope that Ukraine would be able to take the right steps to <i>&#8220;eliminate the very idea&#8221;<\/i> of Belarusian territory being used again for armed aggression against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_33601\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4QnKtMZ_LpI?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine&#8217;s Defence Intelligence, believes that Belarusian democratic movement leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya would not be able, &#8220;even in theory,&#8221; to prevent provocations originating from Belarusian territory. He made the remarks during the Security Architecture forum. &#8220;We must be strong and ready for anything, and then no one will have foolish ideas. Do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":547394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a1e8acfd3576.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Budanov Doubts Tsikhanouskaya Could Prevent Lukashenka\u2019s Provocations"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547395","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=547395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}