Zelensky: Belarus has relay transmitters there that are adjusting fire against Ukraine. If Lukashenko does not remove them, we will

Zelensky: Belarus has relay transmitters there that are adjusting fire against Ukraine. If Lukashenko does not remove them, we will

Volodymyr Zelensky said that equipment has been installed in southern Belarus, near the Belarus-Ukraine border, which Russia allegedly uses to adjust attacks on Ukraine. Zelensky called on Alexander Lukashenko to dismantle this equipment within a week.

“There are relay transmitters on his towers. On his territory along two regions bordering Ukraine, there is equipment that adjusts fire against the Ukrainian population. Can he remove it? I think a week will be enough for him to do it. If he does not do it, we will,” Zelensky said.

He also called Belarus one of the main suppliers of petroleum products to Russia and urged Lukashenko to stop this.

In this way, Zelensky commented on the promise that Belarus would not enter the war between Russia and Ukraine. Lukashenko said this in an interview with Al Arabiya English that was released on June 15. On June 17, in Russia’s Bryansk region, a drone attacked a bus carrying Belarusian children; Russia blamed Ukraine for the attack, while Ukraine blamed Russia. Zelensky denies that the bus was struck by the Ukrainian army.

Comment from the “Analysis” desk. Ukraine has long said that antennas located on Belarusian territory are part of two-way video communication systems with Russian long-range drones of the “Geran” and “Gerbera” types that attack Kyiv. The Russian Armed Forces, like the Ukrainian Armed Forces, use MESH networks for video communication with drones: UAVs with video cameras and special modems act as airborne relay transmitters for one another, which makes it possible to maintain contact with them over dozens and hundreds of kilometers. But they receive the primary signal from relay transmitters on the ground. Ukraine believes that Russian relay transmitters for MESH networks in the Kyiv area are located in Belarus.

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