INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
only in the early morning of Feb
he quickly realized, was about to change forever.While many Russians still see the conflict in Ukraine as a distant reality, war is a daily
closed after businesses closed down or relocated elsewhere in Russia
the invasion with more than 50 towns and villages coming under attack, according to research published earlier this month by independent
changed much less than in Shebekino.But there are still regular explosions as air defense missiles bring down Ukrainian rockets and signs
that air defense systems don't always work perfectly: a piece of a rocket hit an apartment building in the center in July, killing five
residents of the Belgorod region have been killed and 100 wounded by Ukrainian shelling between the start of the war and the end of last
fragile illusion of normal life.The local government has been providing new apartments for the owners of damaged houses and the injured are
September counteroffensive in neighboring Kharkiv region.Many of them were Russia sympathizers who feared being punished as
significant success on the battlefield since the start of the invasion
And a spring offensive, which analysts believe began earlier this month, does not appear likely to yield any major territorial
