Pro-Kiev fighters call on residents of Russian border towns to evacuate. These soldiers fear “civilian losses” while several Russian cities are to be bombed in the coming hours.

“Leave town immediately. Leave town immediately,” they said. This statement comes the day after incursions into the border regions of Belgorod and Kursk, claimed by these units and which the Russian Defense Ministry said it had “repulsed”. However, a member of the territorial defense was killed and ten civilians injured in the incursion.