Thousands of children being evacuated from Russian city of Belgorod
Russia has started evacuating 9,000 children from a border region because it is being shelled continuously by Ukraine, an official said on Friday, reflecting Kyiv’s increasing focus on striking targets behind a front line that has barely shifted in recent months. The children will be moved from the Belgorod region farther east, away from the Ukraine border, said the region’s governor, Vyacheslev Gladkov. The announcement came after Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Kremlin wants to create a buffer zone to help protect border regions from long-range Ukrainian strikes and cross-border ra...