“Regarding the situation in the Grivoron region: the Ministry of Defense, together with law enforcement agencies, continues to clarify it,” Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.
“I now appeal to the residents of Grivoron who have temporarily left their homes… it is not yet possible to return,” he added, according to Reuters.
A woman was reported to have died during Monday’s evacuation.
At the same level, Gladkov reported that Ukrainian forces fired with the help of marches at the town of Grivoron and the village of Borisovka in the Belgorod region near the Ukrainian border, according to what the agency reported. of Russian press Novosti.
Gladkov wrote on his Telegram page: “Ukrainian forces fired on the village of Borisovka. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties. An explosive device was thrown from a drone at an administrative building, and there was no fire, and the roof of the building was destroyed.”
He added: “In the town of Greyvoron, marches attacked two private residential buildings. As a result of the marches firing explosive devices, a fire broke out. There are no casualties.
He continued: “In the Borisovsk region, an explosive device was thrown during a march. There were no casualties. In the village of Borisovka, the roof of a private house was destroyed. The emergency service is working on the scene.”
Earlier, Russia said it was fighting cross-border incursions by Ukrainian saboteurs, in what appeared to be one of the biggest such attacks since the war began last year.
The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said a Ukrainian “sabotage group” entered Russian territory in the Grivoron region, bordering Ukraine, and was defeated.
But the Ukrainian Hromadsky website quoted Ukrainian military intelligence as saying that two Russian armed opposition groups, the “Russian Freedom Corps” and the “Russian Volunteer Corps”, both made up of Russian citizens, carried out the incursion.
The press agency RIA Novosti quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying President Vladimir Putin had been briefed on the attacks and that Russian forces were working to expel the “saboteurs”.
Yesterday, Monday, Gladkov said the Russian military, border guards, presidential guard and the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) were involved in responding to the attacks.
He added that at least 6 people were injured and 3 houses and an administrative building were damaged.
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