{"id":1686,"date":"2026-06-19T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/1686\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:26:09","slug":"zelensky-warns-belarus-to-remove-equipment-used-in-russian-attacks-or-ukraine-will-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/1686\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky warns Belarus to remove equipment used in Russian attacks or Ukraine will do it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that a week \u2060should be enough \u2060for Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to \u2060remove equipment from his country used by Russia in its attacks on Ukraine, adding a threat of Ukrainian action if Lukashenko did not do so.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zelensky said signal relay stations were located in two Belarusian regions bordering \u200cUkraine that were used by Russian forces to help with steering during attacks on Ukrainian civilians. Reuters could not verify his claims independently.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhat\u2019s the point of saying he [Lukashenko] doesn\u2019t want to be in the war? Let him remove this equipment, let him switch it off. I think a week will be enough \u2060for him to do that,\u201d Zelensky told a news conference in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIf he doesn\u2019t do \u200cit, we\u2019ll do it,\u201d he said, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zelensky has in recent months repeatedly warned that Russia plans to draw Minsk more deeply \u200cinto its war in Ukraine. Russian forces used Belarusian territory to launch attacks \u2060when they first invaded \u2060Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (centre) and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend the Victory Day military parade in Moscow in May. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/778963ed-2ac4-4e85-a50f-a772bd2af3bb_bf905a76.jpg\" title=\"Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (centre) and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend the Victory Day military parade in Moscow in May. Photo: Reuters\"\/>Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (centre) and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend the Victory Day military parade in Moscow in May. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Last month, Lukashenko dismissed any notion that Minsk would be dragged further into the \u200cwar but said that, together with Russia, it would defend itself in the event of aggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that a week \u2060should be enough \u2060for Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[580,70,32,52,162,59,660,659,55,51,661],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-al-arabiya","tag-alexander-lukashenko","tag-belarus","tag-kyiv","tag-minsk","tag-moscow","tag-oreshnik","tag-reuters","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}