{"id":570881,"date":"2026-08-25T12:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=570881"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:17:09","slug":"europe-cannot-afford-to-lose-any-country-zelenskyy-responds-to-tsikhanouskaya-s-congratulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/europe-cannot-afford-to-lose-any-country-zelenskyy-responds-to-tsikhanouskaya-s-congratulations","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Europe Cannot Afford to Lose Any Country.&#8221; Zelenskyy Responds to Tsikhanouskaya&#8217;s Congratulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>President of Ukraine <b>Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/b> responded this morning on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zelenskyyua\/status\/2092148514264326414?s=46\">X<\/a> to congratulations from foreign leaders on Ukraine&#8217;s Independence Day, which was marked yesterday. The Ukrainian president also responded to congratulations from <strong>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Europe cannot afford to lose any nation that seeks real independence. It is equally important that Belarus is not dragged into Russia\u2019s cruel war and ultimately evolves into a democratic, open, and peaceful country. Ukraine is grateful to those Belarusians who, alongside Ukrainian soldiers, are defending our shared freedom<\/i><i>&#8220;<\/i>, he wrote, reposting yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/tsikhanouskaya-wishes-ukraine-victory-on-independence-day\">message<\/a> from Tsikhanouskaya, in which she wished the Ukrainian people victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded this morning on X to congratulations from foreign leaders on Ukraine&#8217;s Independence Day, which was marked yesterday. The Ukrainian president also responded to congratulations from Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. &#8220;Europe cannot afford to lose any nation that seeks real independence. It is equally important that Belarus is not dragged into Russia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":549242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a8d5d9919b76.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"\u00abEurope Cannot Afford to Lose Any Country.\u00bb Zelenskyy Responds to Tsikhanouskaya\u2019s Congratulations"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143172,143123],"class_list":["post-570881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-svetlana-tihanovskaja","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570881","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=570881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}