“Numerous” drone attacks occurred overnight in Russia’s Belgorod region, said the governor of the region that was the site of the recent militant raid. they invaded from Ukraine.

“The night was not very quiet. There were several drone attacks. The air defense dealt with most of them,” Vyacheslav Gladkov said via the Telegram app, specifying that as a result of these attacks, vehicles, houses and public buildings in the area were still damaged, but there were no casualties.

In another Telegram post, Gladkov cited Ukrainian shelling of the village of Terezovka with a wounded man being taken to a local hospital.

Confrontation expands in southern Russia

It is noted that the Belgorod and Kursk regions in southern Russia appear to be turning into a new front in the Russo-Ukrainian war as fighting across the border – this time on the Russian side – continues to escalate, along with information and propaganda warfare, which is relatively safe.

The news coming from the Ukrainian and Russian sides is completely different in relation to the same region: the Russians talk about the intensification of Ukrainian aggression on Russian soil, which has lost the attention of the West due to Moscow’s many years of propaganda efforts, and the Ukrainians absolve themselves of any responsibility. and not report anything about areas outside the Russian-Ukrainian border.

After numerous cross-border airstrikes in the Kursk and Belgorod regions in recent months, what the Russians say was a serious incident on Monday: Ukrainian armored vehicles drove into Russian territory and occupied a tiny patch of legal Russian territory (not one was unilaterally annexed last September and belongs to Ukraine).

^{According to Reuters, Associated Press}