{"id":565996,"date":"2026-08-06T14:24:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=565996"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:43:31","slug":"belarusian-military-practices-intercepting-aerial-targets-near-ukrainian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-military-practices-intercepting-aerial-targets-near-ukrainian-border","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Military Practices Intercepting Aerial Targets Near Ukrainian Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A unit of the 56th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment conducted a training exercise to intercept aerial targets at various altitudes and speeds.<\/p>\n<p><i><em>&#8220;Real aircraft were used to make the exercise more challenging,&#8221;<\/em><\/i> the Belarusian Defense Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/modmilby\/57825\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The simulated targets were detected in time and successfully engaged during the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The 56th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment is stationed in the Luninets district of the Brest region near the border with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_565982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-565982\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-565982\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-48.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-48.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-48-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-48-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-48-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-48-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-565982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Aliaksandr Tamkovich, Vayar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_565980\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-565980\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-565980\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-53.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-53.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-53-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-53-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-53-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-53-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-565980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Aliaksandr Tamkovich, Vayar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_565979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-565979\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-565979\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-55.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-55.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-55-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-55-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-55-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_2026-08-06_14-23-55-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-565979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Aliaksandr Tamkovich, Vayar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A unit of the 56th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment conducted a training exercise to intercept aerial targets at various altitudes and speeds. &#8220;Real aircraft were used to make the exercise more challenging,&#8221; the Belarusian Defense Ministry reported. The simulated targets were detected in time and successfully engaged during the exercise. The 56th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":565995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a747366ef0c5.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Military Practices Intercepting Aerial Targets Near Ukrainian Border"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143291],"tags":[143292],"class_list":["post-565996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-army","tag-minoborony"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565996","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=565996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}