The governor of the Russian region of Belgorod has promised to help relocate civilians worried by a recent spate of deadly Ukrainian attacks, a rare admission of the dangers posed by a once distant war that has overwhelmingly impacted Ukrainians. <\/p>\n
Belgorod \u2013 which adjoins northern Ukraine \u2013 has seen waves of Ukrainian strikes. Last Saturday, at least 25 people were killed by an attack on the city of Belgorod itself. <\/p>\n
Ukraine has consistently targeted Russian regions near the border, but the December 30 attack on Belgorod is thought to be one of the single deadliest incidents reported.\u00a0It followed the largest Russian aerial assault of the conflict killed at least 47 people in Ukraine. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople realized there really is a\u00a0war\u00a0going on and it\u2019s come now to Belgorod, maybe not for the first time but the most grave and frightening,\u201d one local told Reuters in the wake of the strike on Belgorod. <\/p>\n
Directly addressing Belgorod residents, Gladkov said: \u201cI see several requests on social networks where you write: \u2018We are scared, help us go to a safe place.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cOf course we will help! Several families have already been transported. We do everything that depends on us,\u201d Gladkov added. <\/p>\n
The governor said his office had previously relocated people whose homes in the region\u2019s\u00a0Shebekinsky\u00a0district were damaged by shelling. In this instance a small group of residents were provided shelter whilst their homes were repaired. <\/p>\n
Friday is the first time the top Belgorod official has offered publicly to relocate large groups of the local population impacted by the war. Residents looking to be relocated will also be expected to travel much longer distances, this time up to 87 miles. <\/p>\n
In his video message, Gladkov instructed concerned residents to get in touch with the city administration to let it know they are \u201cready to leave.\u201d <\/p>\n
The governor said \u201ccomfortable buses\u201d were on standby on Friday to transport residents to the cities of Stary Oskol and Gubkin where they would be lodged in \u201cwarm and safe rooms.\u201d <\/p>\n
Stary Oskol is roughly 87 miles from Belgorod while Gubkin is 74 miles from Belgorod. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou will be there for as long as necessary. If there are not enough places in our temporary accommodation centers in our region, I will turn to my colleagues, governors of other regions, so that they can help us,\u201d Gladkov told civilians. <\/p>\n
The governor said he had received \u201cdozens of calls\u201d from his colleagues in neighboring regions offering to \u201chelp all of you, dear residents of the Belgorod region.\u201d <\/p>\n
One Belgorod local, a business owner, told Reuters how his business had dried up as a result of the fighting. \u201cI come to work, wait for customers but there is no one. I sit for three or four hours and close.\u201d <\/p>\n
In another development, Ukraine\u2019s intelligence agency said that it had destroyed a Russian military stronghold in Belgorod Friday after successfully making an incursion. <\/p>\n
During the incursion, the\u00a0Defense\u00a0Intelligence\u00a0of\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0claimed to have destroyed one of the Russian strongholds and mined the road used by Russians in Grayvoronsky district. <\/p>\n\n
The governor of the Russian region of Belgorod has promised to help relocate civilians worried by a recent spate of deadly Ukrainian attacks, a rare admission of the dangers posed by a once distant war that has overwhelmingly impacted Ukrainians. Belgorod \u2013 which adjoins northern Ukraine \u2013 has seen waves of Ukrainian strikes. Last Saturday, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}