Today, as a result of its shelling, two people were killed and two were injured. Ukrainian artillery on Russian Belgorod region, said the governor of this region Vyacheslav Gladkov, and the head of the company of Russian mercenaries Wagner assured that he was ready to send his units to protect Belgorod from bombing and shelling.

“Since this morning, the settlements of the urban district of Sebekino have been under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Gladkov wrote in the Telegram messenger. Yesterday, Friday, Gladkov said that more than 2,500 people are leaving this region because it is not safe to be there.

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Russian officials have reported in recent days that attacks from northern Ukraine have intensified there. Five people were killed and 16 injured as a result of Ukrainian shelling of the Belgorod region yesterday, Friday, Gladkov said, adding that 500 artillery shells, mortars and rockets from multiple rocket launchers hit the region, more than 370 of which hit the city of Sebekino and its neighborhood. area with a population of 40,000.

“The night was restless. Air defense carried out work on the city of Belgorod,” Gladkov wrote today.

Prigozhin: Wagner will defend Belgorod

Evgeny Prigozhin, head of Wagner’s Russian mercenary company, assured today that “if the (Russian) Ministry of Defense does not stop what is happening in the Belgorod region (…), where Russian territories are occupied by the object, then obviously we will get there.”

“We will protect our Russian people and all those who live there,” he added in a recorded message released by his press office, specifying that his people would not wait for an “invitation” or permission to deploy to the region.

“The only thing we will ask for is ammunition so as not to end up, as we say, with bare asses in the cold,” Prigozhin added.

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters, AFP.}