2023-05-23 10:26:19
“Two houses were attacked by drones in Graivoron” and caught fire overnight from Monday to Tuesday, announced Vyacheslav Gladkov, the governor of the Russian region of Belgorod. In the village of Borissovka, a drone attacked an administrative building, then another drone attack targeted a house, damaging its roof. This is the first attack to have taken on such a scale, with several villages hit by shells.
“Anti-terrorist” regime decreed
This Monday, this border region in the west of Russia was the target of an incursion by armed fighters from Ukraine, which left eight injured. Since then, Moscow has decreed an “anti-terrorist” regime and evacuated civilians to try to repel this new attack on its soil.
The Russian security services (FSB) introduced in the afternoon the “legal regime of anti-terrorist operation zone” in the region, giving increased powers to the authorities to carry out armed operations, control civilians or even evacuate populations. This is a first since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine in February 2022.
“The search operation carried out by the Ministry of Defense and the police continues” Tuesday in the district of Graivoron, said Mr. Gladkov. “The police are doing everything necessary,” he assured, calling on the inhabitants of the district of Gaïvoron who were evacuated not to return to their homes for the moment.
Ukraine has denied organizing the ongoing armed incursion into the Belgorod region. The operation was claimed on a Telegram channel which presents itself as belonging to the “Freedom Legion for Russia”, a group of Russians fighting on the Ukrainian side, which had already claimed to be behind previous incursions in the same region. .
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