Residents of the Belgorod region do not receive notifications of missile danger via Max

The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, admitted that residents of the region cannot set up push notifications about the missile threat in the state messenger Max.

“Push notifications through Mach cannot be provided, because the software there goes to foreign manufacturers, and this contradicts the entire approach,” Gladkov said in a video posted on his Telegram channel.

“This is probably one of the most difficult problems that worries the entire border region now. Our entire alert system is built on push notifications that arrive, for example, in the event of a missile threat or UAV attacks,” added Gladkov. He said he would try to solve the problem, but did not give any time frame.

• In the first two months of 2026, as a result of Ukrainian Armed Forces strikes in the Belgorod region, 35 civilians were killed and 239 people were injured, regional authorities reported at the end of February.
• Vyacheslav Gladkov previouslycriticized the disconnection of communications in the Belgorod region and said that he was “worried” about the telegram blocking, since it would be more difficult for local residents to receive prompt information about the shelling.