How Ukraine Destroyed Russian Repeaters In Belarus

Version of an ex-employee of the SBU.

Ukrainian authorities say they destroyed the communication system that coordinated Russian drones and helped them fly into Ukraine from Belarus. Military expert, former SBU officer Ivan Stupak told the Belsat Studios about how this could have happened.

The interlocutor noted that the first thought was that a Ukrainian sabotage group penetrated into Belarus and physically destroyed the Russian repeaters somehow. But the absence of any reports about the presence of Ukrainian saboteurs in Belarus could mean that other means were used, such as electronic warfare or hacker attacks.

"I am more inclined to these two things. By hacker attacks to disable the software, and by electronic warfare in the same way to take these repeaters completely out of normal operation so that they don't work. It could be irradiation with special waves or powerful microwave radiation, which would simply disable these boards, microdetails. And they are now turned literally into iron, into rags that hang on their towers, but do not work," said Ivan Stupak.

The military expert also commented on the statements of the Secretary of State of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Wolfovich that the Belarusian army at an altitude of 25 to 100 meters "have certain difficulties" with the detection of enemy aircraft and drones. According to him, for Ukraine this is "on the contrary a plus."

"In case, God forbid, the regime of the Republic of Belarus tries to do what was done in 2022, it will really hurt Alexander Lukashenko personally. After all, Ukraine has learned to launch objects flying at an altitude below 100 meters, and the Belarusian current air defense systems will either not see them or will not be able to shoot them down in the quantity in which we have learned to produce them," he said.

Reminder that in February, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that equipment that helps Russian drones to attack Ukraine was placed on the territory of Belarus. He also noted that "our guys were engaged in making sure that three or four repeaters were no longer working on the territory of Belarus."

Then, too, Ukraine's Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov said that "it was possible to eliminate the Mesh-net, which was used by the 'shaheds' in the north, which had a positive impact on the defense capability of Kiev and central Ukraine." As Sergei Beskrestnov, an adviser to the defense minister, explained to journalists, the Mesh-net is arranged in such a way that all its participants are repeaters for each other. But the minister did not specify how it had been destroyed.

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