Russia‘s entire Belgorod region was put under a state of emergency early this morning with tens of thousands of people fleeing their homes as Ukraine launched waves of artillery and drone attacks.
STATE OF EMERGENCY IN BELGOROD
‘The situation in our Belgorod region remains extremely difficult and tense due to shellings from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Houses are destroyed, civilians died and were injured,’ governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram.
‘Two settlements in Belgorod region were attacked by the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ drones,’ he said, adding that ‘a state of emergency will be introduced on the regional level, followed by a request to the governmental commission to declare a federal state of emergency’.
Belgorod borders Ukraine’s Kharkiv region and neighbours Kursk, where a state of emergency was implemented almost immediately after thousands of Kyiv’s troops surged across the border and began seizing territory in the most significant cross-border attack on Russian soil since World War II.
PEOPLE ARE FLEEING
Some 121,000 people have fled in Kursk alone since the start of the fighting, which has killed at least 12 civilians and injured 121 more, regional governor Alexei Smirnov told a meeting with Putin on Monday.
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Close to 200,000 Russians are now said to have evacuated their homes amid the ongoing Ukrainian ground offensive in Kursk along with artillery and drone attacks in Belgorod.
The Ukrainian attack on Russia has dramatically changed the narrative around the war.
