{"id":589318,"date":"2026-10-14T19:23:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=589318"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:09:42","slug":"lukashenka-makes-personnel-changes-in-the-leadership-of-the-defence-ministry-and-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-makes-personnel-changes-in-the-leadership-of-the-defence-ministry-and-armed-forces","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Makes Personnel Changes in the Leadership of the Defence Ministry and Armed Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Aliaksandr Lukashenka<\/strong> has made a series of personnel appointments in the leadership of Belarus\u2019s Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces. The relevant decrees were signed on October 14, his press service <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/pul_1\/23021\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Major General <strong>Vadzim Surau<\/strong> has been appointed Deputy Defence Minister. He previously served as commander of the Western Operational Command of the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>Major General <strong>Uladzimir Kupryanyuk<\/strong> has been appointed First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. Previously, he headed the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff and served as Deputy Chief of the General Staff.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel <strong>Aliaksei Khuziahmetau<\/strong> has been appointed head of the Main Intelligence Directorate.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel <strong>Siarhei Tomchyk<\/strong> has been appointed head of the Main Military Inspectorate of the Armed Forces. Colonel <strong>Andrei Falynskau<\/strong> has been appointed First Deputy Chief of Armaments of the Armed Forces and Chief of Staff of Armaments.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Major General of Police <strong>Siarhei Daroshka<\/strong> has been dismissed from service in the internal affairs bodies upon reaching the age limit. He retains the right to wear the prescribed uniform and insignia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliaksandr Lukashenka has made a series of personnel appointments in the leadership of Belarus\u2019s Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces. The relevant decrees were signed on October 14, his press service reported. Major General Vadzim Surau has been appointed Deputy Defence Minister. He previously served as commander of the Western Operational Command of the Armed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":589319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6acfb75997103.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Makes Personnel Changes in the Leadership of the Defence Ministry and Armed Forces"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143291],"tags":[143292],"class_list":["post-589318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-army","tag-minoborony"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589318","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=589318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589324,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589318\/revisions\/589324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}