{"id":588839,"date":"2026-10-13T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=588839"},"modified":"2026-10-13T20:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:38:36","slug":"sybiha-the-future-of-belarus-must-be-decided-by-the-belarusian-people-not-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/sybiha-the-future-of-belarus-must-be-decided-by-the-belarusian-people-not-moscow","title":{"rendered":"Sybiha: The Future of Belarus Must Be Decided by the Belarusian People, Not Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A meeting between <b>Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya<\/b> and Ukrainian Foreign Minister <b>Andrii Sybiha<\/b> took place on October 13 at the Warsaw Security Forum.<\/p>\n<p>The sides discussed sanctions against the Lukashenka regime and Ukraine&#8217;s cooperation with Belarusian democratic forces. Ukraine&#8217;s foreign minister noted that a democratic Belarus is an important pillar of security in the region.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;An independent and democratic Belarus is an important pillar of security in our region. Its future must be determined by the Belarusian people, not Moscow.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>We held a substantive discussion on security challenges, sanctions, the Lukashenka regime&#8217;s responsibility for complicity in Russian aggression, and further cooperation between Ukraine and Belarusian democratic forces,<\/em>&#8221; Sybiha <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Ukraine_MFA\/10732\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meeting between Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha took place on October 13 at the Warsaw Security Forum. The sides discussed sanctions against the Lukashenka regime and Ukraine&#8217;s cooperation with Belarusian democratic forces. Ukraine&#8217;s foreign minister noted that a democratic Belarus is an important pillar of security in the region. &#8220;An independent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":588840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ace6ca0512e5.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Sybiha: The Future of Belarus Must Be Decided by the Belarusian People, Not Moscow"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588839","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=588839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588841,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588839\/revisions\/588841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}