“About 300 residents of Belgorod who decided to temporarily evacuate are currently housed in temporary shelters in the Old Oskol, Gubkin and Korocha districts,” which are further from the border, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a video posted on the Telegram platform.
“In the last 24 hours, we received 1,300 requests to send Belgorod children to school camps outside the city, in other regions,” he said.
On Friday, Mr. Gladkov suggested that residents of Belgorod evacuate the city, which is less than 20 miles from the Ukrainian border and has seen intensified Ukrainian strikes in recent weeks.
This evacuation from Belgorod is the largest of a major Russian city since February 2022, when Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
On December 30, 25 people were killed in Ukrainian strikes in the city, which is the deadliest attack in Russia since the start of hostilities.
The Ukrainian attack comes following Moscow staged a massive bombing campaign across Ukraine, the biggest since the first weeks of the conflict. Dozens of people died that time.
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2024-07-05 21:09:58
