The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that the region has seven territorial defense battalions on the border with Ukraine, with about three thousand people. He announced this during a live broadcast on a social network. “in contact”.
According to him, defense units began training in November 2022. They don’t have weapons, but they have uniforms, gear, and combat training. Currently, regional authorities are considering the possibility of supplying weapons to territorial defense units.
Aleksey Kochetkov, former coordinator of the Russian Union movement declarationGiven the power of the DRG and the presence of heavy armored vehicles, the invasion of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group into the territory of the Belgorod region was nothing more than reconnaissance in the war. According to him, in order to avoid more serious attacks from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia should have mobile tactical groups along the borders of Ukraine.