Zelenskyy says drone signal repeaters in Belarus have been switched off
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that signal repeaters on the territory of Belarus that had been helping Russian drones strike Ukraine ceased operating on 22 June.
Source: Zelenskyy at a press conference
Quote: "Based on the available information reported to me by the Commander-in-Chief [of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi] and intelligence services, the relevant signal repeaters stopped operating on the territory of Belarus on 22 June.
I don't know yet whether they have been dismantled, to be honest. But we are working on this, and I am keeping a very close eye on the situation and receiving daily reports. It is a fact that the signal repeaters are not operating today."
Background:
- On 19 June, Zelenskyy issued an ultimatum to self-proclaimed Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, giving him a week to dismantle the signal repeaters used to adjust Russian drone strikes on Ukrainian cities, or Ukraine would do it itself.
- Ukrainian border guards reported on 24 June that they have recorded a certain reduction in the intensity of Russian attack drone incursions via Chernihiv Oblast and no mass flights of Shahed drones along the Belarus-Ukraine border in recent days.
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