{"id":276668,"date":"2026-06-23T14:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=276668"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:04:57","slug":"lavrov-says-russia-ready-to-take-all-measures-to-defend-belarus-and-union-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/276668\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov says Russia ready to take all measures to defend Belarus and Union State"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Russia will assist Belarus in the event of external aggression, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20260623\/lavrov-2100529833.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RIA Novosti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are ready to take all measures stipulated by the treaty to ensure the security of our ally and, of course, the security of the Union State,&rdquo; Lavrov said during the 12th Ambassadors&rsquo; Roundtable held at the Diplomatic Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The diplomat called Volodymyr Zelensky&rsquo;s demand to &ldquo;restore order&rdquo; in Belarus outrageous. He added that attempts are being made to directly draw Minsk into the conflict by expanding the geographical scope of military operations.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia will assist Belarus in the event of external aggression, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, according to RIA Novosti. &ldquo;We are ready to take all measures stipulated by the treaty to ensure the security of our ally and, of course, the security of the Union State,&rdquo; Lavrov said during the 12th Ambassadors&rsquo; Roundtable held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":276612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276669,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276668\/revisions\/276669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}