“About 300 residents of Belgorod, who decided to temporarily evacuate, are currently being accommodated in temporary shelter centers in the Starioskola and Korochansky districts”, which is further from the Ukrainian border, Gladkov informed in a video published on the Telegram platform.
He added that 1,300 requests to send children to school camps in other regions were received within 24 hours.
On Friday, Gladkov offered to evacuate residents of Russia’s southern border town, an unprecedented move following Ukraine’s strikes on the town.
The evacuation from Belgorod, located 30 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, is the largest evacuation in Russian cities since Russia launched a renewed invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
On December 30, Ukrainian airstrikes in Belgorod killed 25 people, the highest number of casualties in Russia since it invaded the neighboring country.
After the strikes in Ukraine, Russia responded with the most extensive bombing of Ukrainian cities since the first weeks of the war, killing 30 people.
CONTEXT:
Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked large-scale invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022, the Kremlin’s propaganda brazenly promised to capture Kyiv in three days, but the selfless and strong resistance of the Ukrainians prevented the Kremlin from realizing its plans.
After the setbacks, the Kremlin withdrew the army from the Kyiv region, but continued the offensive in other regions. In the fall of 2022, the Ukrainian army managed to liberate Kharkiv region and part of Kherson region in successful operations, raising hopes for the possibility of defeating the enemy.
However, the Ukrainian counteroffensive launched in the summer of 2023 was not so successful, which the Ukrainian army explains both by the insufficient supply of weapons from the Western allies and by the deep defense line and extensive minefields created by the Russian army. Now there are reports that a war of positions has begun at the front with exhausting battles and preparations must be made for long-term support for Ukraine.
Meanwhile, aid from both the US and the European Union “hangs in the air”.
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2024-01-08 08:57:30
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