Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry, said that Ukraine is ready to evacuate civilians from the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, where fighting continues between Russian rebels and regime forces in Moscow. He announced this on the air of the national telethon.
According to him, the fighting in the Belgorod region continues – Russians from the Legion of Freedom of Russia and the Russian Volunteer Corps, as well as local residents who joined them, rebelled against the dictator’s regime Vladimir Putin with weapons in hand.
He noted that Moscow left several settlements without control, shelling them with artillery and destroying local residents.
Yusov said that the RDK and LSR fighters are actually acting as armed self-defense in the Belgorod region, protecting their compatriots from the regime in the Kremlin.
The intelligence officer said that the support of the rebels among the local population is growing, the number of people who want to fight against Putin with weapons in their hands is increasing.
“Ukraine will duly consider the appeal for the evacuation of civilians from the Belgorod region, if any,” he concluded.
- On May 22, 2023, fighters of the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDC) began to operate in the Belgorod Region. These are paramilitary organizations consisting of citizens of the Russian Federation and declaring the goal of overthrowing the regime Putin.
- In GUR They saythat they operate autonomously in the Russian Federation, but they know their goal – the creation of a buffer security zone near Ukraine.
- June 4 RDK and Legion “Freedom of Russia” suggested the governor of the Belgorod region Gladkov to meet for negotiations in Novaya Tavolzhanka and pick up two captured Russians. Gladkov never arrived, and the commander of the RDK in the evening of the same day said that the prisoners had already “a lot more”.
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