Ukraine war: Fleeing Belgorod residents told to stay away

Residents successful Russia's Belgorod portion who person fled their homes owed to warring determination person been urged not to instrumentality yet.

Russian officials accidental an equipped "sabotage" radical crossed from Ukraine and attacked the Grayvoronsky territory by the borderline connected Monday.

Moscow has present launched a coercion probe arsenic warring continues.

Ukraine denies work and said Russian citizens from 2 paramilitary groups were down the incursion.

No deaths person been reported successful the warring but a fig of radical are believed to person been injured.

That includes 2 civilians amongst those being evacuated, the region's governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said connected Tuesday.

He added that aerial defences had changeable down drones overnight, damaging buildings.

The BBC has verified that a gathering utilized by Russia's main information agency, the FSB, was among those hit. It is not wide what caused the damage.

Mr Gladkov said that radical successful respective villages had been evacuated and warned those who had fled their homes not to instrumentality yet, arsenic Russian forces carried retired what helium described arsenic a "mopping up" operation.

Monday's raid appears to person been 1 of the largest cross-border incursions since Russia's full-scale penetration of the state 15 months ago.

It pb Moscow to state a counter-terrorism cognition successful Belgorod - giving the authorities determination peculiar powers to clamp down connected communications and people's movements.

Ukrainian officials said those down the ongoing incidental were from groups called the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC).

The Liberty of Russia Legion - a Ukraine-based Russian militia which says it is moving wrong Russia to overthrow President Vladimir Putin - said connected Twitter connected Monday it had "completely liberated" the borderline municipality of Kozinka.

It said guardant units had reached the municipality of Grayvoron, further east.

Mr Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that portion "there are galore taste Russians surviving successful Ukraine... they are inactive Ukrainian militants".

Mr Peskov added that their intent was to gully attraction distant from the eastbound Ukrainian metropolis of Bakhmut.

However, Kyiv insists it inactive controls parts of it. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said connected Tuesday that warring successful Bakhmut had decreased - though shelling was continuing successful the country astir it.