His close colleague Vladimir Zelensky said on Monday that a 100-120 kilometers (62-75 miles) demilitarized zone should be established along Russia’s border with Ukraine as part of a post-war settlement.
“The zone will be necessary to protect the territories of Ukraine from shelling,” presidential adviser Mikhail Podolyak wrote on Twitter.
The key theme of a post-war settlement should be the establishment of guarantees to prevent a recurrence of aggression in the future. To ensure the real safety of the residents of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Zaporozhye, Luhansk and Donetsk regions and protect them from shelling,…
— Mikhailo Podolyak (@Podolyak_M) May 29, 2023
It is noted that this area last Monday was invaded by armed people who arrived from Ukraine. At the same time, at night, drones attacked residential buildings and an administrative building in the Belgorod region.
The self-proclaimed Russian partisans said that for the first time in the war they captured a village close to the border, but on Russian territory.
They are rebels from the Legion of Freedom of Russia group, which positions itself as an anti-Kremlin militia seeking to liberate Russia from Vladimir Putin. According to the group, its members crossed the border and occupied the village of Kozinka in the Graivoronsky district of Belgorod, which is 600 meters from the border with the Sumy region of Ukraine, and also sent units to the city of Graivoron.
Another anti-Kremlin militia, the Russian Volunteer Corps, led by a prominent Russian nationalist, also said it participated in the raid.
According to Reuters
Source: Kathimerini
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