A regional emergency situation (ES) has been declared in the Belgorod region. In the future, the authorities plan to ask the government commission to declare a federal emergency situation. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported this on his Telegram channel.
«The situation in the Belgorod Region remains extremely difficult and tense. We face daily shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which leads to the destruction of houses, injuries and deaths of civilians. In this regard, we are making a decision to introduce a regional emergency regime from today to provide additional protection to the population and support to the victims. We will also contact the government commission with a request to move to the level of a federal emergency,» he noted in his video address.