{"id":136280,"date":"2025-04-30T18:34:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/136280\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"ukrainian-border-service-threat-may-come-from-belarusian-territory-during-zapad-2025-exercise","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/136280\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian border service: threat may come from Belarus during Zapad-2025 exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>April 30, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> The situation at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border and in Belarus remains threatening since Russia may try using it again, said Andrii Demchenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told <em>Ukrinform <\/em>that Ukrainian troops did not detect any strike group near the border and that the Russian units in Belarus were not enough to threaten Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The border guards continued to monitor the situation as Belarus kept supporting Russia, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, he did not rule out that Russia may launch new attacks from Belarus, taking advantage of a joint exercise scheduled for September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 13,000 troops would take part in Zapad-2025. Kyiv repeatedly warned its allies that Russia might attack Poland, Lithuania or Latvia, not just Ukraine, from Belarusian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kalashnikov_ostro_org_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kalashnikov_ostro_org_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kalashnikov_ostro_org_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kalashnikov_ostro_org_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kalashnikov_ostro_org_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kalashnikov_ostro_org_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Politics<\/label>\n\n                            <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Security<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Politics, Security<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Ukrainian intelligence: over 700 Belarusians fight alongside Russian troops<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">April 28, Pozirk. At least 742 Belarusian nationals fight alongside Russian troops against Ukraine and 95 of them are dead, reports the Ukrainian hochuzhit.com service that helps Russian troops safely surrender. Only two of 590 Belarusians who signed military service &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/136046\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 30, Pozirk. The situation at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border and in Belarus remains threatening since Russia may try using it again, said Andrii Demchenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service. He told Ukrinform that Ukrainian troops did not detect any strike group near the border and that the Russian units in Belarus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":78790,"template":"","rubric":[14,30],"class_list":["post-136280","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-politics","rubric-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ukrainian border service: threat may come from Belarus during Zapad-2025 exercise | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 30, Pozirk. 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