{"id":552117,"date":"2026-06-18T12:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=552117"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:12:49","slug":"lukashenka-we-must-treat-our-own-people-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-we-must-treat-our-own-people-ourselves","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka: We Must Treat Our Own People Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> explained why Belarusians injured in the drone strike were sent back to Belarus despite Russia&#8217;s offer of assistance.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We must treat our own people and our children ourselves. We have everything necessary for that. We are grateful to Russia for offering assistance. We can do it ourselves. Yesterday I instructed the minister accordingly. All the victims and injured people have been transferred \u2014 some to Homiel, while others will be sent to Minsk. We must provide their treatment,&#8221;<\/i> Lukashenka said at a meeting on adjustments to the Armed Forces construction and development plan for 2026-2030.<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke out against trips abroad.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The others should be sent home. Let them play sports here,&#8221;<\/i> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka also stated that the drone that struck the bus was Ukrainian and instructed officials to establish the truth about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, eight people, including six children, were injured when a drone struck a bus carrying a children&#8217;s football team from Rechytsa. One person was killed. The injured were <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusians-injured-in-bryansk-region-bus-strike-returning-home\">transported to Belarus<\/a>. The remaining passengers have also returned home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliaksandr Lukashenka explained why Belarusians injured in the drone strike were sent back to Belarus despite Russia&#8217;s offer of assistance. &#8220;We must treat our own people and our children ourselves. We have everything necessary for that. We are grateful to Russia for offering assistance. We can do it ourselves. Yesterday I instructed the minister accordingly. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":552116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a33c4a4d89f4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka: We Must Treat Our Own People Ourselves"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552117","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=552117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}