{"id":1433799,"date":"2026-08-30T17:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/flash-explained-why-shahed-jets-are-flying-to-kyiv-along-the-border-with-belarus\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:39:23","slug":"flash-explained-why-shahed-jets-are-flying-to-kyiv-along-the-border-with-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/flash-explained-why-shahed-jets-are-flying-to-kyiv-along-the-border-with-belarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash explained why Shahed jets are flying to Kyiv along the border with Belarus."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>During attacks on Kyiv, Russian Shahed-class jet drones often follow a similar route \u2013 along the border with Belarus. The enemy may be using Belarusian mobile phone networks for navigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"> This was stated by the non-staff adviser to the President of Ukraine on the development of technological areas of defense, Sergei Beskrestnov, known by the call sign &#8220;Flash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"> According to the expert&#8217;s observations, hundreds of jet drones do not fly directly to the capital, but rather hover near the Belarusian border for as long as possible.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"> Beskrestnov suggested that the reason for this trajectory could be the drones&#8217; use of Belarusian civilian mobile communications infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"> &#8220;I stopped at the fact that LTE modems on Shahed, with this flight route, work with Belarusian mobile base stations,&#8221; Flash noted.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"> At the same time, he considers the version about direct control of drones through Belarusian MESH points unlikely.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"> &#8220;The communication points operate much further than the border,&#8221; the expert explained.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"> Thus, according to his assessment, Russian Shahed jets may intentionally route near Belarus in order to exploit the coverage of local mobile operators to operate the LTE modems installed on them.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"> Flash previously reported that Russia has significantly increased its use of Shahed jets for attacks on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> According to his data, while Ukraine was attacked by approximately 1,500 such drones in July, their number exceeded 2,500 in August. 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This was stated by the non-staff adviser to the President of Ukraine on the development of technological areas of defense, Sergei Beskrestnov, known by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1427102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1433799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1427102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}