\u200bThe Kremlin on Monday \u200caccused Ukraine of \u200bthreatening the sovereignty of close Russian ally Belarus after Kyiv gave Minsk a \u200cweek to remove signal relay stations it said were being used to help guide Russian attacks.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on \u200cFriday that a week should be enough for Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko \u200cto remove the equipment, which he said was being used by Russia in its attacks on Ukraine, adding a threat of Ukrainian action if Lukashenko \u2060did \u200bnot do \u2060so. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander \u2060Lukashenko were expected to discuss Zelenskiy’s remarks “in the foreseeable future”.<\/p>\n
“As for the threat \u200bitself, of course, it is utterly aggressive: interference in the \u2060internal affairs of another country and an encroachment on another country\u2019s sovereignty,” Peskov \u2060told \u200breporters. “But we have no doubt whatsoever that the Belarusian leadership, and Belarus itself, are capable of safeguarding their sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Russian forces \u2060used Belarusian territory to enter Ukraine in February 2022, but Minsk – which \u2060hosts Russian \u2060tactical nuclear weapons – has not committed its own troops and has said it has no plans to \u200cjoin \u200cthe war. <\/p>\n
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