{"id":1700,"date":"2026-06-19T19:03:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/1700\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:03:05","slug":"zelenskyy-urges-lukashenko-to-dismantle-drone-relay-network-in-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/1700\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy urges Lukashenko to dismantle drone relay network in Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-end=\"142\" data-start=\"0\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is demanding that Belarus remove relay stations for Russian Shahed kamikaze drones from its territory, according to an informed source within Ukraine&#8217;s Defense Forces.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that relay stations deployed on Belarusian territory are used to guide and adjust enemy Shahed drone attacks against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"253\" data-start=\"140\">Russia also uses Belarusian communication systems for its strikes, helping the aggressor state carry out attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"465\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-start=\"255\">&#8220;This is the equipment in question. No other equipment is being observed there from the Belarusian border, particularly when it comes to combat assets or strike capabilities,&#8221; the RBC-Ukraine source emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nWhat Zelenskyy said&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"169\" data-start=\"21\">Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was not offended by insults from Belarusian self-proclaimed president Alexander Lukashenko.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"360\" data-start=\"171\">However, according to Zelenskyy, relay <a href=\"https:\/\/newsukraine.rbc.ua\/news\/lukashenko-has-one-week-zelenskyy-issues-1781887277.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transmitters<\/a> have been installed on towers in Belarus. This equipment is used to guide and adjust Russian strikes against civilian targets in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"461\" data-start=\"362\">The Ukrainian president noted that a week should be enough time to remove these relay transmitters.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"593\" data-start=\"463\">At the same time, he stressed that if Belarus fails to do so, Ukraine will ensure that the relay transmitters are no longer there.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"725\" data-start=\"595\">Notably, it became known in February this year that Russia had <a href=\"https:\/\/newsukraine.rbc.ua\/news\/hackers-uncover-belarus-s-hidden-role-in-1771671105.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deployed <\/a>a network of relay transmitters in Belarus for its drones.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"910\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-start=\"727\">On February 23, the Ukrainian president <a href=\"https:\/\/newsukraine.rbc.ua\/news\/several-already-gone-zelenskyy-hints-ukraine-1771848615.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hinted <\/a>that Ukraine had carried out operations aimed at destroying relay transmitters on Belarusian territory. He did not disclose any details.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is demanding that Belarus remove relay stations for Russian Shahed kamikaze drones from its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,257,34,53,54],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-belarus","tag-drone-attack","tag-lukashenko","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","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=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/belarus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}