On the night of October 22-23, Ukrainian forces struck the Ryazan Oil Refinery and an ammunition depot located near Valuyki in Russia's Belgorod region.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine intercepted a conversation of a resident of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, in which she expresses concern about the forthcoming combat zone.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces successfully struck two military targets in Russia's Belgorod region, including an S-300P surface-to-air missile system and a Nebo-M radar.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi today reported to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on the situation at the front and the presence of the Defense Forces in the Kursk and Belgorod regions.
In the evening, the governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced the evacuation of two more border villages in the region - Petrivka and Solovyovka.
The Russians are not only actively building defensive fortifications around Belgorod, but are also actively mining general and special-purpose waterworks.
The published video of the explosion in a residential building in Belgorod does not show the fall of a rocket or bomb, and the nature of the explosion indicates that it occurred inside the building.
The accusations of the Russians of shelling a house in Belgorod by the Ukrainian Defence Forces are not true. It could have been a bombing or a domestic explosion, which the enemy propaganda uses in its own interests.
Russian warplanes have accidentally dropped two aerial bombs over Russia's Belgorod region, including a FAB-250 and a FAB-500. Residents of one village had to be evacuated.
Russian volunteers from the Siberian Battalion, fighting against Putin's regime in Russia, said that early on March 17, they entered the village of Gorkovsky in Russia's Belgorod region and seized the local administration.