Reuters. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday (June 24) that signal relay stations in Belarus being used by Russian drones to attack Ukraine had stopped working, days after he warned the country's leader to disable them.
Zelenskiy had said on Friday that Ukraine would be forced to act if President Alexander Lukashenko did not remove the stations in two regions bordering Ukraine within a week.
"From June 22, the relay stations have stopped working on the territory of Belarus," Zelenskiy said in an audio message to reporters. "Whether they took them down or not, honestly, I don't know for now. But we are working on this."
Reuters could not independently verify his assessment.
It was not immediately clear how the stations had stopped working, if that was confirmed, or whether there had been an immediate effect of any shutdown.
Zelenskiy has warned in recent months that Moscow plans to draw Minsk more deeply into its war in Ukraine. Russian forces used Belarusian territory to stage their full-scale invasion in February 2022.
