{"id":574862,"date":"2026-09-08T22:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=574862"},"modified":"2026-09-09T11:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T08:58:07","slug":"chornohor-expresses-cautious-optimism-about-democratic-transition-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/chornohor-expresses-cautious-optimism-about-democratic-transition-in-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Chornohor Expresses Cautious Optimism About Democratic Transition In Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Ambassador-at-Large <strong>Yaroslav Chornohor<\/strong> congratulated Belarusians on the Day of Military Glory and spoke about his work in the post and cooperation with Belarusian democratic forces.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cToday is Sept. 8, and many people are marking the anniversary of the Battle of Orsha, during which, in 1514, the combined forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which at that time included Ukrainian lands, together with Lithuanian, Polish and then Russian \u2014 now Ukrainian and Belarusian \u2014 peoples, whose representatives inflicted a serious defeat on the Moscow army.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Therefore, among Belarusian democratic forces and Belarusian volunteers, this day is marked as the Day of Belarusian Military Glory. I think this is a day to which we also have a connection. And we are glad to welcome our Belarusian brothers-in-arms who are fighting on Ukraine\u2019s side, and to congratulate society in general that our history has such cases when we were able to successfully defeat Moscow\u2019s forces,\u201d<\/em> Chornohor said at a briefing at Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Sept. 8.<\/p>\n<p>Chornohor also briefly outlined his work as ambassador-at-large. He said that recent communication with Belarusian democratic forces and a number of subsequent steps give <em>\u201ccautious optimism that, in the future, we will see a successful democratic transition in the Belarusian direction that will rid us of the threat from the north.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to Chornohor, following <strong>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/strong>\u2019s visit to Kyiv, a number of decisions were made in specific areas, and work is now under way with Belarusian democratic forces.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis concerns documenting the Lukashenka regime\u2019s involvement in the aggression against Ukraine, documenting the Lukashenka regime\u2019s involvement in the case of Ukrainian children abducted, as well as the involvement of the dictator from Minsk in supporting the Russian war machine. <\/em><em>Information is being collected in these areas, analysis is being conducted, and the information is being passed on to the relevant bodies responsible for sanctions and defence,\u201d<\/em> the ambassador said.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Ministry is also preparing strategic documents concerning Belarus and cooperation with Belarusian democratic forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s Ambassador-at-Large Yaroslav Chornohor congratulated Belarusians on the Day of Military Glory and spoke about his work in the post and cooperation with Belarusian democratic forces. \u201cToday is Sept. 8, and many people are marking the anniversary of the Battle of Orsha, during which, in 1514, the combined forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":574861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6aa11fa92a1c2.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Chornohor Expresses Cautious Optimism About Democratic Transition In Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118,143123],"class_list":["post-574862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574862","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=574862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}