'Kursk and Belgorod regions are now an area of active combat actions,' a senior Ukrainian intelligence official said.
Russia's Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine has now become an active combat zone after three groups of Russian defectors serving with the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a two-pronged incursion in the area, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official said on Thursday.'Kursk and Belgorod regions are now an area of active combat actions. This is what we confirm,' Andriy Yusov, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, said during a Ukrainian television appearance.
The three groups urged residents of Belgorod and Kursk to evacuate on Wednesday, saying they were 'forced to inflict fire on military positions located in Belgorod' because 'every day, dozens of ordinary innocent Ukrainians die from shelling from Belgorod.'They issued a similar warning on Friday afternoon, saying that 'within the next hour, a massive attack will be carried out on military targets in the city of Belgorod.
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