The governor of the Russian region of Belgorod announced that a civilian was killed in the city of the same name and three others were injured in a Ukrainian attack, adding that the country’s defense forces shot down eight aerial targets: Tass reports. “Our air defenses shot down eight air targets in the skies over Belgorod and the Belgorod district – wrote Vyacheslav Gladkov on Telegram -. According to initial information, the driver of a car was killed in the attack. In addition, two women and one injured man received emergency medical care.”
At the same time, the Russian Defense Ministry specified that the air defense shot down eight rockets in the Belgorod region this morning at 8:30 local time (6:30 in Italy), out of a total of fourteen drones intercepted between Belgorod and Kursk . Explosions were reported in the Belgorod region, where residents posted images of smoke rising after the explosions on Telegram channels. Meanwhile, the alert has been issued for a missile threat.
For the third consecutive day, pro-Ukrainian Russian paramilitaries are carrying out incursions into the border areas and predict, Kiev media report, that bombing of Russian military targets will begin today. Moscow’s Defense Ministry said Russian forces today repelled a new infiltration attempt from Ukraine in the Belgorod region. near the village of Spodariushino. During the fighting, the ministry adds in a note, ‘195 enemies, 5 tanks and 4 armored vehicles’ were eliminated.
On the other hand, the Russian National Guard, quoted by the Ria Novosti agency, reported that soldiers from the corps, the FSB security services and the army are fighting in the Kursk region, on the border with Ukraine, to repel a new infiltration attempt in Russian territory near the village of Tetkino.
According to Kiev services, the Russians are preventing civilians from evacuating Belgorod
Ukrainian intelligence sources reported that Russian authorities are blocking the evacuation of civilians in the Belgorod region, where raids by pro-Ukrainian Russian paramilitaries are underway. This was reported by RBC-Ukraine, which cites conversations of local residents of the Shebekino settlement. “They shot at Karachansky and they shot at taxi drivers. Yes, the train station has already been surrounded, that’s all, they don’t let anyone go or return,” said one citizen.
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Four pro-Ukrainian paramilitaries arrested in St. Petersburg
The Russian Security Service (FSB) announced that it had arrested in St. Petersburg four alleged members of a pro-Ukrainian paramilitary group that was preparing attacks on the country’s territory, including the poisoning of Russian soldiers.
“The FSB has put an end to the illegal activities in St. Petersburg of a clandestine cell of the Ukrainian paramilitary group ‘Russian Volunteer Corps’, which was acting in the interests of the Ukrainian secret services,” it said in a statement.
The four residents of Russia’s second city “were planning to poison with a very toxic substance
food products intended as humanitarian aid for Russian soldiers” fighting in Ukraine.
The four also allegedly “carried out reconnaissance on vital infrastructure and transport sites… in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region and then prepared attacks,” the statement added.
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