The Kremlin has responded to the ultimatum President Volodymyr Zelensky recently issued to Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday dismissed Zelensky’s remarks as “nothing more than an attempt to further incite the war and escalate tensions.”JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.Peskov added that Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet Lukashenko in the near future.“This will be a good opportunity to discuss Kyiv’s threats to Minsk and other issues,” he said.Peskov also described Zelensky’s warning as “absolutely aggressive,” claiming it amounted to “interference in the internal affairs of another country, an encroachment on the sovereignty of another country.”“But we have no doubt that the leadership of Belarus and Belarus itself can ensure its sovereignty,” he added.On Friday, Zelensky gave Lukashenko one week to remove Russian signal relay equipment from Belarusian regions bordering Ukraine. According to Zelensky, the relay systems help guide Russian Shahed drones, improving their targeting of Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.Notably, one of Ukraine’s most popular Telegram channels, Nikolaevsky Vanyok, which is reportedly linked to local officials, claimed on Monday that Ukrainian forces had recently destroyed towers used to help guide Shahed attacks.“Belarus has essentially been hostage to Russian scoundrels for a long time, but at the same time, Belarus is trying its best to evade this war. As you can see, sometimes they succeed, sometimes they don’t,” the channel wrote.