Russia has evacuated around 300 residents of Belgorod, a city near the Ukrainian border, over strikes by Kyiv, the governor of the region said on Monday.
“Some 300 residents of Belgorod, who decided to temporarily evacuate, are at the moment being housed in temporary shelter centres in Stary Oskol, Gubkin and the Korochansky district” which are further from the border, Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a video posted on Telegram.
In the meantime, Russia fired more than fifty missiles and drones into Ukraine early on Monday, resulting in the death of at least four persons, according to reports from that country.
Russia has focused its air strikes on Ukraine’s infrastructure and what it claims are military objectives as the battle on the front lines in eastern Ukraine is mired in winter trench warfare. But civilian areas have been targeted on a regular basis.
In retaliation, Kiev has started launching its own missiles and drones against locations both inside Russia and in the seized east.
