{"id":586774,"date":"2026-10-08T13:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=586774"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:34:06","slug":"belarusian-and-iranian-special-forces-practice-hostage-rescue-at-hockey-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-and-iranian-special-forces-practice-hostage-rescue-at-hockey-match","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian And Iranian Special Forces Practice Hostage Rescue At Hockey Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Antiterrorism exercises of the CIS and SCO countries, &#8220;Eurasia-Antiterror \u2014 2026,&#8221; are underway in Minsk. Special forces from Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Iran, Russia and Uzbekistan are taking part. Iran has sent an <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/irgc-unit-arrives-in-belarus-for-exercises\">IRGC special forces unit<\/a> to Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Today, as part of the exercises, the participants practiced rescuing hostages at Chyzhouka Arena. According to the scenario, the hostage-taking occurred during a hockey match. Terrorists infiltrated the game and opened fire on fans and athletes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_586755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-586755\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-586755\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-08_13-51-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-08_13-51-31.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-08_13-51-31-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-08_13-51-31-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-08_13-51-31-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-586755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: BelTA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_586754\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-586754\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-586754\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-08_13-51-36.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-08_13-51-36.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-08_13-51-36-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-08_13-51-36-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo_2026-10-08_13-51-36-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-586754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: BelTA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antiterrorism exercises of the CIS and SCO countries, &#8220;Eurasia-Antiterror \u2014 2026,&#8221; are underway in Minsk. Special forces from Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, Iran, Russia and Uzbekistan are taking part. Iran has sent an IRGC special forces unit to Belarus. Today, as part of the exercises, the participants practiced rescuing hostages at Chyzhouka Arena. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":586777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac77fb32b2d8.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian And Iranian Special Forces Practice Hostage Rescue At Hockey Match"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143291,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-army","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586774","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=586774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586779,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586774\/revisions\/586779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}