Russia is making ready air protection over Moscow and provides safety playing cards to the border metropolis earlier than the New 12 months

Russia deployed air protection programs over Moscow on Saturday and issued emergency shelter directions to residents in Belgorod, close to the Ukrainian border, in preparation for New 12 months celebrations.

About 2,000 troopers will oversee Moscow’s air defenses whereas “on responsibility at fight posts on New 12 months’s Eve,” Russia’s Protection Ministry stated, in line with state media outlet TASS.

“In whole, about 20,000 servicemen of the Air Protection Missile Protection Formation of the Aerospace Forces might be on air protection fight responsibility throughout the New 12 months holidays and weekends,” the outlet stated on Telegram.

On December 22, 2022, light decorations for the coming New Year were installed in Moscow, Russia.

On December 22, 2022, mild decorations for the approaching New 12 months have been put in in Moscow, Russia.
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The ministry did not say if it expects there might be an assault on the capital early within the new 12 months, though Russia can also be making ready areas alongside Ukraine’s border, in line with Ukraine’s Pravda information company.

The Belgorod Area – which borders Ukraine’s Kharkiv Oblast and whose regional capital is about 20 miles inland from the border – has seen a number of strikes in current months as Ukrainian forces pushed the entrance additional east.

Based on the Ukrainian information company, Russian authorities have offered residents of the area with maps of emergency shelters within the metropolis in case of renewed assaults.

Russia accuses Ukraine of being behind the blast and fire.

Russia accuses Ukraine of being behind the blast and fireplace.
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Ukraine pushed Russian forces out of Kharkiv in September, and in October Belgorod reportedly started to see a rise in shelling.

The regional governor claimed a large fireplace broke out in mid-October after shells fell on a Russian oil depot.

Then, in November, two folks died in shelling within the space and energy traces have been reportedly broken in early December.

A police expert holds a fragment of a drone with a handwritten inscription "For Belgorod.  For Luch" after a drone strike in Kyiv on October 17, 2022 amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A police skilled holds a fraction of a drone with the handwritten inscription “For Belgorod. For Luch”.
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One other shelling incident was reported on December 18, killing one particular person, wounding eight others and damaging a dozen residential buildings, in line with regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.

It stays unclear whether or not the Belgorod incidents have been premeditated, and the Ukrainian authorities has not commented publicly on assaults concentrating on a number of Russian areas, together with a minimum of 4 separate assaults on Russian bases earlier this month.