{"id":586123,"date":"2026-10-07T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=586123"},"modified":"2026-10-07T12:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:17:41","slug":"ukraine-s-foreign-ministry-on-belarus-latvia-border-incident-moscow-is-behind-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ukraine-s-foreign-ministry-on-belarus-latvia-border-incident-moscow-is-behind-it","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Belarus-Latvia Border Incident: Moscow Is Behind It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Ukraine believes Russia is behind the provocation on the Belarus-Latvia border and is using migration to destabilize Europe. Ukrainian Foreign Minister <strong>Andrii Sybiha<\/strong> said this in a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Ukraine_MFA\/10652\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cUkraine expresses full solidarity with Latvia over the incident on its border with Belarus, during which armed individuals threatened Latvian military personnel while escorting migrants toward the border.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>There should be no doubt: Moscow is behind this. Putin is deliberately using migration as a weapon with Lukashenka\u2019s assistance to destabilize Europe.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>This is part of a broader aggressive strategy. Russia and the Belarusian regime continue to test European security, increasingly resorting to acts of sabotage,\u201d<\/i> Sybiha said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Ministry believes that Russia\u2019s policy should be met with increased pressure, stronger borders and greater support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The Latvian army reported a <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/latvia-reports-provocation-armed-masked-men-herd-migrants-toward-border\">provocation on the Belarus-Latvia border<\/a> earlier this week. Armed masked men drove a group of at least 20 migrants toward the Latvian border and threatened Latvian military personnel.<\/p>\n<p>The attempt to cross the border was thwarted, but several hours later masked men entered Latvian territory, damaged a distribution cabinet, stole surveillance cameras and fled to Belarus before Latvian border guards arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine believes Russia is behind the provocation on the Belarus-Latvia border and is using migration to destabilize Europe. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said this in a statement. \u201cUkraine expresses full solidarity with Latvia over the incident on its border with Belarus, during which armed individuals threatened Latvian military personnel while escorting migrants toward the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":577141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac60e39a28c0.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Belarus-Latvia Border Incident: Moscow Is Behind It"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143123],"class_list":["post-586123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586123","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=586123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586124,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586123\/revisions\/586124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}