{"id":43464,"date":"2022-08-24T14:04:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T11:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/the-washington-post-belarusian-defense-minister-called-his-ukrainian-counterpart-with-instructions-to-surrender-to-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"the-washington-post-belarusian-defense-minister-called-his-ukrainian-counterpart-with-instructions-to-surrender-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43464\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post: Belarusian defense minister called his Ukrainian counterpart with instructions to surrender to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>August 24, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>On February 22, just two days before the start of the Russian war against Ukraine, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktar Chrenin assured his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksii Reznikov that Russian forces in Belarus would not invade Ukraine, The Washington Post reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t \u201cAnd he was a liar,\u201d the Ukrainian defense minister told journalists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Reznikov also said that Chrenin called him again two days after the invasion and nervously conveyed a message from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu demanding Ukraine\u2019s surrender. &#8220;I am ready to accept the capitulation from the Russian side,&#8221; Reznikov responded.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t At a meeting with the security bloc on February 24, Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka said that Chrenin called Reznikov at half past three in the morning, instructing him what to do step by step. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t do it which means they wanted this war. Now let them figure out who pushed them into it,&#8221; \u0141uka\u0161enka said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On February 24, Russia started a full-scale war against Ukraine. Authorities in Minsk deny Belarusian army troops\u2019 involvement in combat operations on the Russian side. However, Belarus allowed Russian troops and weapons to move freely through the country, use its airspace, refuel and store military equipment and attack Ukraine from its territory.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t A 20,000-strong grouping of Russian forces crossed into Ukraine from Belarus at the outset of the war, Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka told <span>AFP<\/span> in an interview on July 21. Russian troops retreated from northern Ukraine later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 24, BPN. On February 22, just two days before the start of the Russian war against Ukraine, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktar Chrenin assured his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksii Reznikov that Russian forces in Belarus would not invade Ukraine, The Washington Post reported. \u201cAnd he was a liar,\u201d the Ukrainian defense minister told journalists. Reznikov also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-43464","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Washington Post: Belarusian defense minister called his Ukrainian counterpart with instructions to surrender to Russia | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 24, BPN. 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