Local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported on the shelling.
The Governor of the Belgorod Region of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced the work of the Air Defense Forces in the sky over the Shebekin District. The air defense system worked several times.
He wrote about the first shelling on his social network at 19:02.
“Our anti-aircraft system went off over the Belgorod district and the Shebekin district. 2 shells were shot down,” Gladkov wrote in the Telegram.
About an hour later, he reported on another mass shelling of the Bilhorod district and the Shebekinsky district.
“The anti-aircraft defense has worked. According to preliminary data, there are no casualties. The consequences on the ground are being clarified,” he clarified.
Explosions in Belgorod
On the night of Tuesday, January 17, explosions were also heard in Russian Belgorod and the region. At that time, it was reported about a large amount of “cotton” in the Yakovliv district, Dubovo and Belgorod itself.
On January 15, it became known that the platoon commander of the occupiers in the Belgorod region detonated a grenade along with ammunition. As a result, a large-scale fire broke out, and there are fatalities.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, Russian troops regularly attack the border regions of Ukraine, launching missiles from the Belgorod region.
