Power facility on fire in Belgorod region, authorities claim drone attack

The governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported the information on Telegram.

"A fire has broken out at one of the power facilities in the Belgorod district. The initial investigation suggests that the fire was caused by an explosive device dropped from a drone. No injuries have been reported, and there are no power outages," he wrote at 02:00 am.

The current situation in the Belgorod region

• On May 22, the Free Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps announced the liberation of Kozinka and Gora Podol in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation and the entry of their advanced units into the city of Graivorona.

• On June 2, the Russian Volunteers Corps and the Free Russia Legion launched a second offensive in the Belgorod region. This time, Russian partisans focused on the town of Shebekino.

• Later, on June 3, the 'legionnaires' accused Putin's troops of chaotic shelling of the Belgorod region and offered the residents of the region to evacuate to the interior of Ukraine.

• “The border area in the Belgorod region is rapidly turning into a gray zone (on the part of the Russian Federation): abandoned houses, abandoned residents, complete absence of local administration and police representatives... The Russian Volunteers Corps is trying to gain a foothold in this suddenly formed gray zone in order to restore order later,” the RVC informed on June 3.

• On the morning of June 4, volunteers reported fighting on the outskirts of Shebekino.

• In the afternoon of June 4, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Legion released a video featuring two captives who appealed to regional head Vyacheslav Gladkov, requesting him to come and retrieve the prisoners held by the army under Putin's control.

• At 4:54 p.m., Gladkov responded and agreed to a meeting to collect the prisoners but suggested an alternate location