War reaches Russian border regions
On average, eight towns and villages are shelled daily, with almost 300 people killed and injured. Novaya-Europe’s data analysis Photo: Vladimir Aleksandrov / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images “Defending people and, first of all, defending Russia,” is how Vladimir Putin explained the goal of the Ukraine invasion in January 2023. Meanwhile, according to the data posted by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Russian regions have been attacked over 2,000 times since the start of the war.