Belgorod breakthrough. The second day

In the evening of the second day of the invasion of the fighters of the “Russian Volunteer Corps” and the Legion of Freedom of Russia in the Belgorod region, proven information about the situation did not appear.

For the first time, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation officially commented on the clashes, reporting on the "defeat of Ukrainian nationalist formations." The representative of the military department, Igor Konashenkov, said that as a result of the operation, more than 70 “Ukrainian terrorists” were killed, four military armored vehicles and five pickups were destroyed.

The Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov said that in the morning of May 23, the village of Grainoronsky City District continued to be under the "numerous mortar and artillery shelling."

Gladkov also announced about 100 people from the border villages of Glotovo and Kozinka.

The Astra TG channel found out that the Belgorod authorities cannot evacuate residents from the district of Grailoron and the village of Kozinka. On the page of Governor Gladkov, a comment appeared with a request to save people from Kozinka. The administration of the Graivoron district replied that “there are no possibilities of exporting inhabitants,” said the TG channel, “local residents wrote that they could not take relatives from Grailooron, because all the roads were blocked. The authorities answered the same. ”

According to the Kommersant publication, during an attack on the Belgorod region on May 22, the military unit was fired at the Belgorod-22 military town, located ten kilometers from the border and related to the Graivoron city district. As a result of the explosion of three shells released from Ukraine, the rejection system “Hurricane”, two military personnel were killed in the town, four more were hospitalized with fragmentation wounds.

“Still, unfortunately, we have losses. A peaceful resident of the village of Kozinka died at the hands of the Armed Forces, ” wrote Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to the governor, the wife of the deceased is in the hospital with injuries. Earlier, Gladkov reported 12 wounded local residents and another 80-year-old woman who died on the bus “during evacuation”.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case under six articles of the Criminal Code: about the terrorist attack, an encroachment on the life of law enforcement officials, attempted murder, intentionally destroying or damage to property, illegal turnover of weapons and explosives.

The Legion “Freedom of Russia”, declared by the authorities of the Russian Federation by the “terrorist organization”, on the afternoon of May 23, reported that “continues to free the Belgorod region” together with the “Russian Volunteer Corps”.

Pro-Russian Z-channels said that the operation to squeeze saboteurs was led by Colonel General Alexander Lapin. It is this military leader who is accused of numerous defeats of the Russian troops in Ukraine and specifically of surrendering the enemy of the Kharkov region.

According to the data close to the Wagner PMC, the Grey Zone TG channel on the Ukrainian side of the border is observed by an accumulation of up to half a thousand members of the formations with technology.

“On the part of the Cossack Lopani and the UD are attempts to cross the border with small forces: the Russian border guards repelled the sorties under Shchetinovka and Gorky,” said TG channel, “a small enemy of five people tried to cross the state border near Tsapovka.”

Sources of the Volya TG channel confirm the sending to the Belgorod region of special forces from the FSB special purpose center. Alpha and Vympel arrived in Belgorod to participate in “stripping and releasing hostages,” said the TG channel, “they were supposed to be used as assault detachments to knock out RDK and other pro-Ukrainian formations from the villages of the Graivoronsky district.”

The TG-Canal of the Union with the “Russian Volunteer Corps” of the “Civil Council” disseminated information about possible provocations by the Russian authorities.

“Soon, Rospropagand will begin to warm the story that the RDK and“ Freedom of Russia ”are holding hostages - they will explain that the task of special units is to recapture the hostages,” the members of the Civil Council say, “however, hiding behind the assault, the authorities want to hide their monstrous failure and mistakes. It is planned to arrange a “buch in Russian” in order to first “heroically cleanse the territory”, and then write off the victims among the civilians on the actions of our guys. ”

The regime of the counter -terrorism operation in the Belgorod region, introduced after the invasion of the armed group from the territory of Ukraine, is canceled . This was announced by Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov at 17.40 Moscow time.

After 19.00, the Zvezda Ministry of Defense TV channel showed the first frames of damaged saboteurs in the Belgorod region.