“Today we had a meeting dedicated entirely to drones and lines, and defense, and our responses, and so on. We also, in principle, talked about Kovel,” the president said. “There is a problem – that they [россияне] They see our boundaries, the boundaries of interceptors, with which we work well, and they want to bypass them. They bypass them thanks, by the way, to Belarus, the Belarusian land. And technically thanks to Belarus too.”
Zelensky noted that “this is a serious issue.”
“I have set all the tasks for the next bid, there will be answers,” the president added.
Context
The day before, on the evening of December 25, an atypical alarm was declared in four regions in northern Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force warned about the drone in the north of the Rivne region, but there was no alarm in the neighboring Zhytomyr region in the morning. In the public pages they wrote that Shahed could have flown in from the territory of Belarus.
In addition, the Russian Shahed began to deliberately attack the Kyiv-Kovel railway line. Thus, the Russian Federation is trying to stop the work of the Ukraine-Poland logistics link, military expert Sergei Beskrestnov (Flash) noted on December 26.
“Two days ago, Shahed attacked a train, and then attacked a repair crew; the day before yesterday, Shahed attacked a railway bridge; last night, a locomotive depot. All these attacks are on the Kyiv-Kovel railway line. The enemy’s task is to stop the work of this Ukraine-Poland logistics link,” Beskrestnov explained. The expert emphasized that the Russian Shahed are controlled from the territory of Belarus, although they enter from the Russian Federation.
