{"id":564710,"date":"2026-08-01T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=564710"},"modified":"2026-08-02T12:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:19:25","slug":"ukrainian-prosecutor-general-s-office-confirms-receipt-of-request-to-open-criminal-case-against-lukashenka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ukrainian-prosecutor-general-s-office-confirms-receipt-of-request-to-open-criminal-case-against-lukashenka","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office Confirms Receipt of Request to Open Criminal Case Against Lukashenka"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office has confirmed receiving a request from the Office of the President regarding the possibility of opening a criminal case against Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong>. The information was confirmed by Mariana Haiovska-Kovbasiuk<\/strong>, head of the Information Policy and Communications Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office, reports<\/a> Ukrinform.<\/p>\n

According to her, the request was registered on July 30, 2026. It is currently under review.<\/p>\n

“The applicants will be notified of the outcome of the review in accordance with the procedure established by law,”<\/i> she said.<\/p>\n

The Prosecutor General’s Office has not opened any criminal cases against Lukashenka so far.<\/p>\n

As previously reported, the Office of the President of Ukraine recently forwarded to the Prosecutor General’s Office a request from the Belarus Democratic Forces Forum asking it to open a criminal case against Lukashenka. The Forum, founded by Valery Tsapkala<\/strong>, requested a legal assessment of Lukashenka’s actions “in connection with his role in supporting Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the use of Belarusian territory for the invasion by Russian troops, and other actions.”<\/i><\/p>\n

The authors of the request asked the authorities to consider opening criminal proceedings under a number of articles of Ukraine’s Criminal Code, including those covering the waging of an aggressive war, war crimes, financing terrorism, encroachment on Ukraine’s territorial integrity, war propaganda and genocide.<\/p>\n

During a visit to Kyiv in January 2026, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/strong> discussed with Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong> the possibility of holding Lukashenka accountable, including for the deportation of Ukrainian children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office has confirmed receiving a request from the Office of the President regarding the possibility of opening a criminal case against Aliaksandr Lukashenka. The information was confirmed by Mariana Haiovska-Kovbasiuk, head of the Information Policy and Communications Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office, reports Ukrinform. According to her, the request was registered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":521535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a6f0ba128de3.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ukrainian Prosecutor General\u2019s Office Confirms Receipt of Request to Open Criminal Case Against Lukashenka"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143123],"class_list":["post-564710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-ukraina"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564710","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=564710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}