on Thursday morning “with tank support” but that the attack was repelled by Russian border forces.
The Belgorod region's operational headquarters denied that there had been any “breakthrough by the Ukrainian military” near Shebekino but said in the same statement that there was “shelling” in the area and that “sounds of combat” could be heard, according to Russian state media.
Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said Thursday morning that Shebekino was “under relentless fire.” Writing on Telegram, he
reported that the town was under fire from a Grad multiple rocket launcher system and that a dormitory building had caught on fire and a local administration building was damaged as a result of the shelling. Some Telegram channels reported that a bus carrying evacuating citizens had been hit, but Gladkov
reported that nobody was in the vehicle at the time of the strike. The governor didn’t comment on the raids announced by the RDK and the Freedom of Russia Legion.