{"id":186998,"date":"2026-05-11T10:48:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/186998\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:48:45","slug":"trump-credits-lukasenkas-cooperation-in-april-prisoner-release","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/186998\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump credits \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s cooperation in April prisoner release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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May 11, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> US President Donald Trump acknowledged Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s \u201ccooperation and friendship,\u201d which led to the release of journalist Andrej Pa\u010dobut (Andrzej Poczobut) from a Belarusian prison on April 28. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThanks to my Special Presidential Envoy, John Coale, we were able to push hard to make this release happen,\u201d Trump said almost two weeks after the event in a TruthSocial post yesterday. \u201dToday, Poczobut is free due to our efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minsk freed and handed over to Poland journalist and Polish minority activist Pa\u010dobut after Coale met Polish President Karol Nawrocki and Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski in Warsaw on April 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarusian authorities also liberated Polish monk Grzegorz Gawe\u0142 and Polish national Tomasz Bieroza as part of a five-for-five exchange at the Belarusian-Polish border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poland released Aleksandr Butyagin, a Russian archaeologist arrested at Ukraine\u2019s request over excavations in annexed Crimea. Moldova released Alexandru B\u0103lan, a former deputy chief of Moldova\u2019s Intelligence and Security Service, who had been sentenced earlier this month to 18 months in prison for allegedly leaking secret information related to Romania to officers of Belarus\u2019 KGB. Poland also handed over Nina Popova, a Russian citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poland additionally freed U\u0142adzis\u0142a\u016d Nadziejka, a former member of Paspalitaje Ru\u0161enne, an organization that provided weapons-handling and fitness training for exiled Belarusians. He was arrested in Bia\u0142ystok and accused by Polish investigators of spying for Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The identities of the remaining exchanged individuals have not been disclosed. The Polish prime minister described one of them as a Belarusian who had cooperated with Poland\u2019s security services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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