Almost three thousand people remain in Russian border town despite ongoing shelling from forces in Ukraine

On June 10, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported on his Telegram channel that roughly 2,700 residents remain in the town of Shebekino, despite ongoing artillery strikes and incursions by armed groups from inside Ukraine. Gladkov added that officials still don’t know the exact number of homes and cars destroyed by shelling, which included a direct hit against a local shopping center on Friday, he said.

Also on Friday, the deputy head of the Putin administration and the Kremlin’s informal occupied-territory policy czar, Sergey Kiriyenko, toured Shebekino and the surrounding area together with Governor Gladkov.