{"id":566849,"date":"2026-08-10T09:41:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=566849"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:45:14","slug":"belarusian-special-forces-fly-to-china-for-the-rapid-eagle-2026-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-special-forces-fly-to-china-for-the-rapid-eagle-2026-exercise","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Special Forces Fly To China For The \u201cSwift Eagle – 2026\u201d Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Belarusian special forces personnel have traveled to China, where they will take part in the joint \u201cSwift Eagle – 2026\u201d exercise.<\/p>\n

According to the Defense Ministry\u2019s press service, the drills will take place at a Chinese army airborne troops training ground in Hubei province. They will continue until Aug. 24.<\/p>\n

The exercise will feature a joint tactical operation in an urban environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe servicemen will conduct parachute jumps, operate unmanned aerial vehicles and counter drones, learn joint UAV assembly, carry out various types of firing exercises, and use urban and industrial mountaineering techniques\u201d<\/i><\/em>, the ministry said.<\/p>\n

The Belarusian paratroopers are expected to spend almost a day traveling to China. They will make stopovers in Novosibirsk and Vladivostok.<\/p>\n

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Belarusian special forces personnel have traveled to China, where they will take part in the joint \u201cSwift Eagle – 2026\u201d exercise. According to the Defense Ministry\u2019s press service, the drills will take place at a Chinese army airborne troops training ground in Hubei province. They will continue until Aug. 24. The exercise will feature a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":566848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a8d9c6cc11dd.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Special Forces Fly To China For The \u201cSwift Eagle \u2014 2026\u201d Exercise"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-army"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566849","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=566849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}