682 days after the start of the war, the authorities of the Russian city of Belgorod, which became the target of massive Ukrainian bombings, began evacuating residents. The governor announced that the people were scared and asked to take them to a safe place.

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08:57Russia has begun evacuating residents of Belgorod after shelling the city, said the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, The Kyiv Independent reports.

As a result of the attack on Belgorod, which is located approximately 40 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, 25 people died and more than 100 were injured on December 30. Ukraine did not claim responsibility for the strike, which came a day after Russia carried out a massive air strike on Kiev.

According to Gladkov, residents of Belgorod posted requests for help with moving on social networks.

“I’m seeing more and more appeals on social media where people are saying, ‘We’re scared, help us get to safety.’ Of course we will! We have already resettled several families,” Gladkov said.

A brief summary of recent events:

• For the first time since the beginning of the war, the Russian authorities are calling on the residents of Belgorod to protect their windows in the face of increasingly frequent bombings in Ukraine. At the same time, the Russian authorities offer residents the opportunity to evacuate amid the explosions
• Russia hit Ukraine with missiles delivered by North Korea, Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the president of Ukraine, said on Friday, after Washington also said so.
• Ukraine’s foreign exchange reserves grew by 42% last year thanks to “unprecedented” external financial support, reaching $40.5 billion on January 1, 2024
• Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who came under sanctions, bought a business jet worth $36 million in Kazakhstan to bypass sanctions, reports the independent Russian publication Verstka.
• Nepal has announced it will no longer issue work permits to its citizens in Russia after at least 10 Nepalese soldiers were killed while serving in Vladimir Putin’s army.
• Recently, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was denied access to the reactor facilities of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (Zaporizhia) for “security reasons.”
• Zelenskyi and Erdogan discussed the formula for peace and security in the Black Sea by phone
• Kadyrov wants to lift sanctions against his family in order to free 20 Ukrainian prisoners of war
• Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said that in the near future there is an intention to create a separate committee to adapt national legislation to NATO standards.

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