{"id":1376809,"date":"2026-04-01T17:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/belarus-is-preparing-for-war-lukashenko\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T17:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:19:16","slug":"belarus-is-preparing-for-war-lukashenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/belarus-is-preparing-for-war-lukashenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus is preparing for war \u2013 Lukashenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The self-proclaimed President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has stated that the Belarusian Armed Forces are preparing for war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was reported by a public figure close to Lukashenko.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere can be no peaceful time. We are preparing for war. That is what we created the Armed Forces for, that is what we maintain them for, that is what the people are spending money on to support us,\u201d said the self-proclaimed leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He clarified that Belarus is supposedly against war, but the army is \u201cdesigned for that.\u201d Lukashenko threatened to respond to those who are looking \u201cunder the gun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUnfortunately, the situation is such that I cannot fight without you. And I want my subordinates to be ready to fight. If we are ready to fight, they will fear us,\u201d he assured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As is known, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/bilorus-zalyshaietsia-zahrozoiu-ukraina-ukripliuie-prykordonni-terytorii\/\">Ukraine is strengthening the border line with Belarus<\/a> so that the soldiers of the Defense Forces can counter it in the event of a threat.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-zaiavyv-pro-plany-rf-rozghornuty-bilshe-stantsiy-upravlinnia-dronamy-na-tot-i-v-bilorusi\/\">Russia plans to deploy new ground control stations for long-range drones<\/a> in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and Belarus.<\/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>The self-proclaimed President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has stated that the Belarusian Armed Forces are preparing for war. This was reported by a public figure close to Lukashenko. \u201cThere can be no peaceful time. We are preparing for war. That is what we created the Armed Forces for, that is what we maintain them for, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1109760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76870,76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1376809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376809","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=1376809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1109760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}