{"id":572454,"date":"2026-08-30T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=572454"},"modified":"2026-08-30T19:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T16:01:17","slug":"putin-lukashenka-meeting-not-linked-to-cia-director-s-visit-peskov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/putin-lukashenka-meeting-not-linked-to-cia-director-s-visit-peskov","title":{"rendered":"Putin-Lukashenka Meeting Not Linked to CIA Director\u2019s Visit \u2014 Peskov"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The meeting between <strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong> and <strong>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong> held yesterday was not linked to the visit to Moscow by U.S. CIA Director <strong>John Ratcliffe<\/strong>. Kremlin Press Secretary <strong>Dmitry Peskov<\/strong> said this to <strong>Pavel Zarubin<\/strong>, a journalist with the Vesti news service.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Russian-Belarusian relations are a completely independent dimension that in no way depends on contacts with the Americans&#8221;<\/em>, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting between Vladimir Putin and Aliaksandr Lukashenka held yesterday was not linked to the visit to Moscow by U.S. CIA Director John Ratcliffe. Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said this to Pavel Zarubin, a journalist with the Vesti news service. &#8220;Russian-Belarusian relations are a completely independent dimension that in no way depends on contacts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":572453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a9453e0af054.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Putin-Lukashenka Meeting Not Linked to CIA Director\u2019s Visit \u2014 Peskov"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572454","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=572454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}