Secret Network Of Repeaters In Belarus Sends "Shaheds" To Ukraine And NATO Countries

Hackers have learned the details of another war crime of Lukashenko's regime.

Recently, Ukraine imposed sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko, one of the reasons President Vladimir Zelensky cited as the reason was the repeaters used by the Russians to control attack drones. Ukrainian hackers have discovered how Russian drone operators use Belarus, writes Informnapalm.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky claimed back in late 2025 that Russia was using Belarusian territory to bypass Ukrainian air defense systems and target Shahed-type drones. According to him, the equipment for strikes is placed directly on the roofs of residential buildings in Belarusian cities, which poses a serious risk to the country's citizens.

When sanctions were imposed against Lukashenko, it was said that in the second half of 2025, the Russians deployed a system of repeaters on the territory of Belarus to control attack drones, which increased the Russian army's ability to strike the northern regions of Ukraine - from Kievshchina to Volyn.

The sanctions are said to be the culmination of a long-running cyber operation conducted by Ukrainian hackers from the Fenix cyber think tank with the support of volunteers from the international intelligence community InformNapalm.

The hackers managed to hack into the accounts of dozens of Russian military officers and gain access to monitoring systems used by Russian drone operators. A 24-hour covert surveillance of the accounts was organized.

In September 2025, analysis of information in the chats of Russian drone operators showed that the Russian Federation actively used civilian infrastructure, in particular cell phone towers in Belarus, to lay out the routes of its drones, Informnapalm writes.

This way they provided a stable signal and tried to reach targets located on the northern and western borders of Ukraine. And in some places they even flew into the territories of some NATO countries, and this was no accident.

According to the publication, the presence of Ukrainian hackers inside the control system of Russian drones made it possible to transmit to NATO partners operational information that the flight of dozens of Russian drones into Poland on the night of September 9-10, 2025 was an element of testing new tactics and capabilities of the Belarusian civilian cellular infrastructure - in order to plan future operations of strikes on logistical routes both in Ukraine and Poland to cut Ukraine off from supplies to the West.

It was also noted that both the software used by the Russian drone operators and their correspondence included data on UAVs of the "YYY" series. UAVs of this series were also found in the Baltic States and Poland after Russian drone attacks.

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