Zelenskyy added that “Russia will keep pushing him further into this war,” but that the Belarusian president now “understands that Ukraine will respond.”
Kyiv’s pressure on Minsk is not limited to the relay equipment that, according to Zelenskyy, “adjusts fire on our people.”
Ukraine’s leader also criticized Lukashenko over his country’s oil-refining sector, arguing that “today, Belarus is one of the key suppliers for the Russian army.”
This is not the first time Kyiv has denounced Russia’s use of Belarusian territory to launch attacks against Ukraine or countries supporting it.
Zelenskyy warned in mid-May that Moscow was “considering plans for operations to the south and north of Belarusian territory” either against Ukraine “or against one of the NATO countries.”
Belarus’ support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been documented since the early stages of the war, when Moscow’s forces used Belarusian territory to launch missile and drone attacks against Ukraine.