{"id":571560,"date":"2026-08-26T23:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=571560"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:49:42","slug":"belarusian-volunteer-miraslau-lazouski-posthumously-named-honorary-citizen-of-rivne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-volunteer-miraslau-lazouski-posthumously-named-honorary-citizen-of-rivne","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Volunteer Miraslau Lazouski Posthumously Named Honorary Citizen Of Rivne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On Aug. 13, deputies of the Rivne City Council <a href=\"https:\/\/rivnerada.gov.ua\/portal\/view-content\/25827\">posthumously awarded<\/a> the title of \u201cHonorary Citizen of Rivne\u201d to 201 defenders of Ukraine. Among them was Belarusian volunteer <strong>Miraslau Lazouski<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svaboda.org\/a\/33840704.html\">Radyjo Svaboda reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His name has now been <a href=\"https:\/\/rivnerada.gov.ua\/portal\/view-content\/3434\">added<\/a> to the city&#8217;s official list of honorary citizens under number 665.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cLazouski Miraslau Uladzimiravich \u2014 a citizen of Ukraine who was killed (died) while defending the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine in the Russian-Ukrainian war, and who directly participated in measures to ensure national security and defense and to repel and deter armed aggression against Ukraine,\u201d<\/i> the list says.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_571404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-571404\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/773580816_1298827265478408_4847217478198981060_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-571404 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/773580816_1298827265478408_4847217478198981060_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/773580816_1298827265478408_4847217478198981060_n.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/773580816_1298827265478408_4847217478198981060_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/773580816_1298827265478408_4847217478198981060_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/773580816_1298827265478408_4847217478198981060_n-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/773580816_1298827265478408_4847217478198981060_n-1067x800.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-571404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: rivnerada.gov.ua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2024, Rivne decided to name a street after Miraslau Lazouski.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s, Miraslau Lazouski became one of the founders of the \u201cWhite Legion.\u201d In 2017, he was arrested along with more than three dozen people in the so-called \u201cPatriot Case.\u201d The case was later dropped. In 2020, Miraslau Lazouski moved to Ukraine, where he joined the ranks of Belarusian volunteers. He fought in the Kalino\u016dski Regiment under the call sign \u201cMysh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lazouski was killed in Bakhmut in May 2023. He was leading the evacuation of a group of battalion \u201cVolat\u201d fighters who were trapped in one of the buildings under Russian artillery fire. Four people were killed in the strike. Several other fighters, including former leader of the \u201cYoung Front\u201d <strong>Dzianis Urbanovich<\/strong>, were rescued.<\/p>\n<p>Lazouski covered the evacuation and was the last to leave. He was unable to reach shelter, which was several dozen meters away, and was killed. His body was recovered from the combat zone and buried in Kyiv. The bodies of the four people killed who remained in the destroyed building could not be recovered.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2023, Miraslau and 21 other Kalino\u016dski Regiment fighters received the BNR Medal for Military Merit. In June of the same year, the Rada of the BNR posthumously awarded Lazouski the Order of the Iron Knight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 13, deputies of the Rivne City Council posthumously awarded the title of \u201cHonorary Citizen of Rivne\u201d to 201 defenders of Ukraine. Among them was Belarusian volunteer Miraslau Lazouski, Radyjo Svaboda reports. His name has now been added to the city&#8217;s official list of honorary citizens under number 665. \u201cLazouski Miraslau Uladzimiravich \u2014 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":571559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a8ffa2a283ff.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Volunteer Miraslau Lazouski Posthumously Named Honorary Citizen Of Rivne"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143121,143123],"class_list":["post-571560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571560","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=571560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}