{"id":1277146,"date":"2025-08-07T13:28:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/minsk-is-preparing-for-repression-the-army-will-be-officially-involved-in-the-fight-against-protests\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:28:29","slug":"minsk-is-preparing-for-repression-the-army-will-be-officially-involved-in-the-fight-against-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/minsk-is-preparing-for-repression-the-army-will-be-officially-involved-in-the-fight-against-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Minsk is preparing for repression: the army will be officially involved in the fight against protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The regime of Belarusian dictator Lukashenko is expanding the powers of the army, which will be able to suppress protests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/szru.gov.ua\/news-media\/news\/lukashenko-hotuie-armiyu-do-prydushennya-protestiv-i-posylennya-kontrolyu-nad-suspilstvom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported<\/a> by the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The draft of the new law &#8220;On Amendments to the Laws on Ensuring Military Security and Defense&#8221; radically changes approaches to security: the Belarusian army receives broader powers, in particular regarding actions within the country,&#8221; the SZR noted.<\/p>\n<p> The main emphasis of the new law is on the force component. Previously, defense was defined as a set of political, legal, and socio-economic measures, but now the priority is armed protection.<\/p>\n<p> According to the updated law, the Belarusian army, in times of war, must not only repel aggression, but also &#8220;defeat the enemy&#8221; in order to conclude peace on terms that meet national interests.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Particular attention is drawn to the expansion of the army&#8217;s functions in peacetime. The military is officially involved in preventing internal armed conflict, participating in information confrontation &#8220;in the interests of the state&#8221;, responding to internal crises and crises in allied countries, as well as countering border provocations,&#8221; the SWR noted.<\/p>\n<p> The list of grounds for declaring martial law was also expanded: now this is possible not only in the event of an attack on Belarus, but also on a Union State or a CSTO member state.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, demand for Belarusian defense developments has grown rapidly since the start of Russia&#8217;s full-scale aggression against Ukraine. In response to the growing demand from the Russian Federation, the Belarusian authorities have sharply changed their priorities in technology development &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/z-traktoriv-u-rakety-bilorus-perekhodyt-na-viyskovi-reyky\/\">instead of civilian areas, projects with military potential have become the focus of attention.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/intehratsiia-z-rosiieiu-tiahne-ekonomiku-bilorusi-vnyz-szr\/\">the Belarusian economy is slowing down due to integration with Russia<\/a> . In 2025, Belarus&#8217; GDP growth decreased compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, Belarusian dictator Alexander <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/lukashenko-vtrachaie-kontrol-nad-ekonomikoiu-bilorusi-rozvidka\/\">Lukashenko cannot keep the economy in check, which is gradually deteriorating<\/a> . In an attempt to curb inflation, the authorities are once again resorting to price regulation.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The regime of Belarusian dictator Lukashenko is expanding the powers of the army, which will be able to suppress protests. This was reported by the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. &#8220;The draft of the new law &#8220;On Amendments to the Laws on Ensuring Military Security and Defense&#8221; radically changes approaches to security: the Belarusian army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1277137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1277146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1277137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}