{"id":561966,"date":"2026-07-23T16:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=561966"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:47:07","slug":"tertel-and-valfovich-brief-lukashenka-on-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tertel-and-valfovich-brief-lukashenka-on-security","title":{"rendered":"Tertel and Valfovich Brief Lukashenka on Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On July 23, <b>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/b> received a briefing from Security Council State Secretary <b>Aliaksandr Valfovich<\/b> and KGB Chairman <b>Ivan Tertel<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Today, the president also received a briefing from Security Council State Secretary Aliaksandr Valfovich and State Security Committee Chairman Ivan Tertel on issues related to Belarus&#8217; defence and security,&#8221;<\/i> Lukashenka&#8217;s press service said.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka also made personnel appointments within the KGB on Thursday. The specific appointments were not disclosed publicly.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenka <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-strengthens-security-council-state-secretary-s-role-in-the-kgb\">strengthened the role of the Security Council State Secretariat, and of Valfovich personally, within the KGB<\/a>. According to him, key issues such as intelligence operations and agent networks will continue to be reported directly to him, while organisational and personnel matters will be overseen by Valfovich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 23, Aliaksandr Lukashenka received a briefing from Security Council State Secretary Aliaksandr Valfovich and KGB Chairman Ivan Tertel. &#8220;Today, the president also received a briefing from Security Council State Secretary Aliaksandr Valfovich and State Security Committee Chairman Ivan Tertel on issues related to Belarus&#8217; defence and security,&#8221; Lukashenka&#8217;s press service said. Lukashenka also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":561965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a621b5f33124.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Tertel and Valfovich Brief Lukashenka on Security"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561966","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\/561966","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=561966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}