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Belarus continues to allow Russia to use its territory to conduct strikes against Ukraine. According to State Border Guard Service spokesperson Andrii Demchenko, the country provides signal support for aerial attacks against the western regions of Rivne, Volyn, and Lviv.
The aerial weapons launched by Russia the last few days were powered by signals transmitted through relays located inside Belarus, Ukrinform reports on September 14, citing Demchenko.
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“We see that Belarus does not stop supporting the terrorist country, because even these air strikes, which concerned the Rivne, concerned the Volyn and Lviv regions—all this was also provided actually from the territory of Belarus,” Demchenko stated.
“Although we do not record, as before, an increase of any strike groups there near our border, in the immediate vicinity on the territory of Belarus, in general the threat from Belarus — it continues to come,” he added.
In April 2026, Yurii Ihnat, head of communications for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stated that Russian forces were actively using the territory of Belarus, Moldova, Romania, and unrecognized Transnistria to route attack drones around Ukrainian air defense zones.
He explained that Russian drones were flying in succession along the border with Belarus to strike Ukraine's western regions, likely relying on towers and signal relays inside Belarusian territory to help control the systems and make them more resistant to electronic warfare suppression.
In July 2026, military technology expert Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov reported that a jet-powered, camera-guided Russian Shahed drone struck a gas station in Malyn, Zhytomyr Oblast, after flying along the Belarusian border and following local transport routes.
Because the target was located approximately 260 kilometers from the Russian border without airborne signal repeaters present, Beskrestnov noted that maintaining direct real-time radio control over that distance required ground-based signal repeaters situated inside Belarus, which may have been secretly installed to enable precision strikes across western Ukraine.
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