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Two explosions have taken place in the early hours of Monday in Belgorod, the southern Russian region bordering Ukraine, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the region’s governor has written in a social media post.
“There were no casualties or damage,” Gladkov wrote, according to Reuters.
Given all the complexities of the process, the first evacuees will arrive in Zaporizhzhia tomorrow morning. Hopefully this doesn’t fail. Our team will meet them there. I hope that tomorrow all the necessary conditions will be met to continue the evacuation of people from Mariupol. We plan to start at 8 am.
When the bunker started to shake, I was hysterical, my husband can vouch for that. I was so worried the bunker would cave in,” Natalia Usmanova said.
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