Federal emergency declared in Belgorod region

The Belgorod region, following Kursk, has declared a federal emergency.

According to Ukrinform, The Moscow Times reports this with reference to the head of the region, Vyacheslav Hladkov.

According to him, this decision was made at a meeting of the government commission chaired by the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, Alexander Kurenkov, who called the situation in the region difficult and tense.

As Ukrinform reported, the day before, a regional-level state of emergency was declared in Russia's Belgorod region with a subsequent appeal to the government commission to declare a federal-level state of emergency.

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