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A strike hit an oil depot on Saturday that caught fire in the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, local officials said, with shooting increasing in recent days in the area.
“Another bombing in our area. One of the projectiles hit an oil depot,” said the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, on his Telegram account. He posted a photo showing heavy black smoke billowing from a burning structure.
According to him, rescue workers are currently trying to put out the fire. “There is no risk of spreading,” assured Vyacheslav Gladkov.
On Friday, an electrical station located in Belgorod, in the far west of Russia, “caught fire” after a Ukrainian strike, announced already the governor of the region according to which the fire has finally been brought under control.
While the first Russian soldiers of the new military grouping between Moscow and Minsk have arrived in Belarus, said this Saturday the Belarusian authorities, after the announcement this week of the creation of this force supposed to defend the country’s borders against a Ukrainian threat.
“The first trains of Russian soldiers composing the regional military grouping have arrived in Belarus,” the Belarusian Ministry of Defense said in a statement, without specifying the number of Russian soldiers deployed.
Despite conflicting claims of an intensified preparatory regime in Belarus, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told Voice of America that there is no indication that Belarusian troops are preparing to enter Ukraine.
Russia is acting “as it should” in Ukraine. said Vladimir Putin Friday despite the series of setbacks of his army against Ukrainian forces.
“It’s not pleasant what’s happening now, but (if Russia had not attacked Ukraine on February 24), we would have been in the same situation a little later, the conditions would have just been worse for us. So, we are doing everything right,” the Russian president replied to a journalist who asked him if he had any regrets.
The Russian president told reporters on Oct. 14 that there was currently no need for further massive strikes against Ukraine and that “nothing more is planned” and that “partial mobilization” would end in “about two weeks” – which should free up bureaucratic bandwidth for the normal fall conscription cycle that begins Nov. 1.
Although Russian law prohibits the deployment of conscripts abroad Vladimir Putin may intend to fill gaps in the Russian front lines with mobilized personnel long enough for the fall conscripts to receive training and improve Russian combat power in 2023.
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