{"id":1375586,"date":"2026-03-30T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/trump-looks-forward-to-meeting-with-lukashenko-after-pardoning-250-political-prisoners\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:29:47","slug":"trump-looks-forward-to-meeting-with-lukashenko-after-pardoning-250-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/trump-looks-forward-to-meeting-with-lukashenko-after-pardoning-250-political-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump &#8216;looks forward&#8217; to meeting with Lukashenko after pardoning 250 political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>American leader Donald Trump has expressed his desire to meet with the self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko as a sign of gratitude for the release of political prisoners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He wrote about this on the social network Truth Social.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to him, on March 19, following a meeting with the American delegation, Lukashenko pardoned 250 political prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The total number of prisoners that President Lukashenko has generously released since May of last year has exceeded 500,&#8221; Trump wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added that he would like to &#8220;express my sincere gratitude&#8221; to Lukashenko for releasing the prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI look forward to meeting him at the next meeting of the Peace Council,\u201d the US president said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Previously, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-ssha-rozghliadaiut-mozhlyvist-zustrichi-trampa-z-lukashenkom-u-bilomu-domi\/\">the United States considered inviting Lukashenko to meet with Trump<\/a> in Washington or at the Mar-a-Lago residence.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, in March, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/lukashenko-zvilnyv-250-politv-iazniv-pislia-skasuvannia-ssha-sanktsiy-proty-biloruskykh-kompaniy\/\">Lukashenko released 250 political prisoners<\/a> after the US lifted sanctions against Belarusian companies.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American leader Donald Trump has expressed his desire to meet with the self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko as a sign of gratitude for the release of political prisoners. He wrote about this on the social network Truth Social. According to him, on March 19, following a meeting with the American delegation, Lukashenko pardoned 250 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1340156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1375586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375586","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}