The governor of Russia’s Belgorod Oblast announced Tuesday that authorities will evacuate about 9,000 children from the area as Ukraine has been stepping up attacks on Russia’s border regions.
“A large number of villages are being evacuated today. We are currently planning to evacuate about 9,000 children,” said Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
Gladkov said that over the past week, 16 people were killed and 98 were wounded by Ukrainian shelling in Belgorod. He said that over 130 residential houses and 60 passenger cars were damaged as a result of Ukrainian shelling over the past day. A Zoo in Belgorod that was hit by the shelling said a Kangaroo was killed.
Ukraine has increased its attacks on Russian territory as Russia has been gaining more ground on the battlefield. Russian forces have been making steady gains on the battlefield since taking the Donetsk city of Avdiivka last month.
On Tuesday, Russia said its forces took the village of Orlivka, which is about 2.5 miles west of Avdiivka.
According to a report from The Sunday Times, Ukraine’s Western backers have advised it to focus on defending its lines on the battlefield while launching more long-range strikes against Russia. Britain’s defense minister and army chief gave that advice last week during a visit to Ukraine, saying Western long-range missiles could help with strikes on Crimea and Russia’s Black Sea fleet.
These attacks have no military purpose. They help push the “scrappy little Ukraine” image in the West and, I suppose, may play well to the domestic audience. As far as the actual war goes, they just piss off an adversary that is slowly, inexorably, taking whatever it wants while killing large numbers of Ukrainian troops.
Ukraine should listen to Pope Francis, not Joe Biden and NATO.
NATO long-range missiles help to terrorize Russian civilian population but they can’t help Ukraine to win the war. They can only motivate Russia to take more of the territories and develop better anti-missile systems. In a bigger war with NATO the antimissile systems will be extremely important.
Yeah yeah, tell us more, Medvedev.
Your war is definitely going according to plans. 🤣
Typical Nazi Fascists Ukrainians killing women and children!
They did say they wanted to be big Israel. . .
Russians killing Russians, you mean.
Escalation after escalation until the world ends up a bunch of nuclear craters. And there seems to no brakes anywhere in our government.
The US government is desperate to keep the population distracted during increased austerity trickle up.
That might be Russia. They are the ones who invaded.
Weren’t you tankies all screaming that there was no invasion of Belgorod Oblast just a couple of days ago? I love how you flip so easily!
Will we see Russia finally take out Kiev?
No ethnic cleansing in Russia…!
Gotta love how the map just stays the same as more and more folks die. :-/
Sometimes, that’s how wars of attrition go. In this case, the casualty exchange ratio, coupled with the fact that one of the belligerents has overwhelming superiority in troops/population and weapons/munitions/production, suggests that the eventual likely outcome is collapse of the disadvantaged side and the side with the advantages taking more or less what it wants.
To put it simply, it appears that Russia is in no hurry to risk unnecessary losses when patiently grinding down Ukraine is working quite well. It’s a complete disaster for Ukraine, of course. Biden should stop it.
Yeah, Russia appears to be in a good position to just sit back and, eventually, someday, ‘win’.
Pretty bad news for the folks who have to pay the real price, namely virtually everybody except those sitting on the thrones.
They stopped 60 billions. Some clever people think, it is because of the elections. The worst scenario for Biden team would be if they give to Ukraine those 60 billions and Ukrainian army still collapses just before the elections. It will look much better for Biden if it collapses without those 60 billions and rather sooner than later. Of course, it would be much better for Biden if Ukrainian army can resist until the elections are over. Unfortunately for them, the situation is unpredictable.
Well, 1.5 million artillery shells should help out a lot, no?
No, actually.
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Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of Dead Russians in Ukraine
I’d make a bet they will.
Russia evacuates children from harm’s way.
IsraHell bombs, shoots and starves children.
Er…WHICH government does Amerikkka support?
War just came to Russia. The used to be second strongest army in the world cannot even defend itself.
Nazi wannabe Putin is weak.
I still read the Putin lovers here coming up with delusional excuses.
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