Russian Drones Continue To Fly Along The Belarusian-Ukrainian Border
5- 29.06.2026, 11:54
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Despite the shutdown of the repeaters.
In recent days, starting Friday, June 26, groups of Russian attack drones have resumed flights along the border between Belarus and Ukraine. According to a report from the Ukrainian Air Force, there were three separate incidents on Friday in which groups of drones, launched from the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, flew over northern Chernihiv Oblast toward Lyubech and Slavutych along the border with Gomel Oblast: around 8:00 a.m., around 4:00 p.m., and around 9:00 p.m.
The situation repeated itself on Saturday around 7:30 p.m., when another group of UAVs was moving along the border toward Slavutych, notes "Flagstok".
At the same time, the drones did not bypass the "Bragin pocket" and did not fly further into the Zhytomyr region. Since the incident on June 25, monitoring channels have not recorded any incursions by Russian UAVs from Belarusian territory. There is also no eyewitness testimony to this effect.
Sergey Beskrestnov , an advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Defense on technological issues (“Flash”) in an interview with “Suspilne.” In addition to the topic of repeaters, he explained how Russia is also using Belarusian infrastructure in its air attacks on Ukrainian territory:
“The second part of the story is that every ‘Shahed’ is equipped with an LTE modem containing a Russian SIM card from the Russian company T2. And when Russian ‘Shaheds’ and ‘Gerberas’ fly near the Belarusian border, they can ‘latch onto’ Belarusian mobile networks and use them to transmit information from Ukrainian territory.”
At the same time, he confirmed that the very same repeaters mentioned by Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been shut down in Belarus, and explained how Russia had been using them. One of the repeaters was located in the Bragin District of the Gomel Region, presumably within the territory of a radiation reserve:
“We detected four repeaters in operation. One of them was near the border, not far from the city of Slavutich. Therefore, all the reconnaissance UAVs flying over Kyiv—the ‘Gerberas’—all of that vermin was controlled from this location in Belarus. This is because the shortest distance to Kyiv for radio control from Russian territory is 210 kilometers, while from Belarus it is 140 km.”
According to “Flash,” the Russians have been installing radio modems on the “Shaheds” for several years now. This allows them to receive intelligence from the “Shaheds’” cameras and control them like FPV drones—via a radio channel from Russian territory. Each such relay point allows for UAV control at a distance of up to 200 kilometers:
“But there are places that the relay towers from Russia cannot reach. For example, Lviv, Kovel, and other regions in western Ukraine. To control the strike and reconnaissance UAVs launched over these territories, the Russians used four towers equipped with signal repeaters located in Belarus.”
The expert described what the repeaters look like: A tower 45–70 meters tall—it could be a mobile operator’s tower, a TV tower, or any tower at all—on which an internet-connected transceiver and an antenna pointed toward Ukraine are installed.
“Flash” noted that even if the repeaters are shut down, attacks on northwestern Ukraine will not stop, but they will no longer be controlled online:
“These will be standard ‘Shahed’ attacks based on GPS coordinates. There will be no reconnaissance. This is very important because the Russians are not only attacking us online through these networks—they are conducting extensive reconnaissance, searching for our infrastructure, our air defense systems, and so on. There will be no online attacks on train locomotives or, again, on air defense systems.”
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