The governor of Russia's Belgorod region has confirmed that fighting was ongoing on his side of the Ukraine border, with pro-Ukrainian forces having taken Russians prisoner during the clashes.
Russians are fleeing border regions as Ukraine says it is preparing a major counteroffensiveThe governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on Sunday he was ready for talks to retrieve "our guys" from the saboteur fighters who say they have taken Russian soldiers prisoner in the Belgorod region, about 40 kilometres north of the Ukraine border.
The pro-Kyiv groups made up of Russians, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Legion for Freedom of Russia, had earlier called on the Belgorod governor to meet fighters and retrieve captive soldiers. Russia's army subsequently claimed to have repelled a "sabotage group of Ukrainian terrorists" seeking to cross the frontier near to the settlement.Russians fleeing border regions
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