Ukraine warns Belarus of ‘consequences’ over drone equipment

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday 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.