“During the night the situation was turbulent,” Gladkov added on the Telegram app, noting that “a lot” of damage had occurred in the towns of Chepekino and Volokonovsky following the latest shelling.
Gladkov later said fires broke out in Chebykino after Ukrainian forces shelled the market area in the center of town, adding that no one was injured. Chebykino is about 7 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
And he added that more than 4,000 people have been moved to temporary accommodation in the area.
The scenes of war are increasingly shifting towards Russia, with increased bombings in border areas as well as airstrikes deep within the country, including attacks on Moscow last week.
And at the end of May, the Russian army announced that it had repelled one of the most serious cross-border attacks by a Ukrainian “sabotage group”, which it said had entered Russian territory in Belgorod.
Ukraine has denied launching an attack on Moscow last week and has also denied involvement of its military in incursions into Belgorod, which it says are carried out by Russian volunteer fighters.
On Saturday, Gladkov accompanied around 600 children from the towns of Chebykino and Grivoron in the region to the towns of Yaroslavl and Kaluga, far from the Ukrainian border.
Chebykino, with a population of around 40,000, and other places in Belgorod have been frequently attacked recently.
Gladkov told Russian media that the region was now living in “real wartime conditions”.
Night strikes on Ukrainian military airfields
In this context, the Russian army announced that it had launched night airstrikes on Ukrainian military airports, stressing that it had hit command centers and equipment.
“Tonight, the Russian Armed Forces launched a joint airstrike with long-range, high-precision weapons against enemy installations at military airfields,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
He added: “Command centers, radar stations, equipment for Ukrainian aviation and an arms and ammunition depot were hit.”
In recent weeks, Russian airstrikes on Ukraine and Ukrainian bombardments on Russian territory have intensified, while Kiev has confirmed for months that it is preparing for a major attack on Moscow forces with the aim of recover the lands it has lost since the start of the Russian Invasion in February 2022.
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