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Empty Streets In Russian City After Repeat Ukraine Attacks Force Evacuations<\/span><\/p>\n

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The last several days have witnessed eerily empty streets<\/strong> in the Russian border city of Belgorod, after local authorities initiated limited evacuations, and this during the holiday season (also given Russia celebrates Christmas on Jan.7).<\/p>\n

At least hundreds of residents of Belgorod city “decided to temporarily move” <\/strong>to safety shelters elsewhere in the region, after this month has seen near daily cross-border shelling and drone attacks from Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Empty streets in Russia’s Belgorod city, via The Moscow Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Russia has been launching its own major retaliatory airstrikes against Ukraine, which have also killed dozens of civilians.<\/p>\n

These attacks on Belgorod and the region have stretched back for weeks, and have killed over 25 people and injured scores more<\/strong>. According to one outlet with correspondents in the region, parts of Belgorod appear like a ghost town<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And CNN cites the following statement from authorities<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In Monday\u2019s message, Gladkov said his office had received 1,300 applications to send children from Belgorod to school camps in other regions<\/strong>, and that his colleagues from the regions of Voronezh, Kaluga, Tambov, and Yaroslavl \u2013 some distance from Belgorod \u2013 are \u201cready to help us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Shelling has pummeled the city center, and even areas with Christmas marketplaces, causing residents to avoid all central areas.<\/p>\n

“Today, 392 schoolchildren from Belgorod will go to out-of-town health camps in the Voronezh and Kaluga regions for 21 days,”<\/strong> Belgorod mayor Valentin Demidov announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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City residents say it feels like there’s nowhere to hide from the random, sporadic shelling and attacks<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Nowhere is safe,” <\/strong>42-year-old kindergarten teacher Evgenia Savenko told AFP, as she walked through the city’s main square with her preschool-age son.<\/em><\/p>\n

“It can happen anywhere — at home or in a neighboring town,” she said. “The fear is always present. It never goes away.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And another eyewitness:<\/p>\n

“Every day they bomb, in the morning and in the evening,” <\/strong>said 83-year-old pensioner Nina Tikhonova, whose neighbour’s house was damaged by shelling.<\/em><\/p>\n

“My acquaintances took their children to Ivanovo,” a Russian city some 250 kilometres (155 miles) northeast of the capital Moscow, she said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Largely empty city square after cross-border attacks disrupted Christmas celebrations.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Russian government has vowed to do everything possible to stave off the attacks and protect the citizenry; however, so far there’s been nothing new other than ‘revenge’ strikes on Ukrainian cities. Ultimately, civilians on both sides bear the brunt of the suffering in this escalating tit-for-tat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 01\/11\/2024 – 04:15<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/empty-streets-russian-city-after-repeat-ukraine-attacks-force-evacuations<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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