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The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region ordered schools to operate remotely starting Monday as the Ukraine military’s counteroffensive pushed closer to the border.
Vyacheslav Gladkov said Sunday that scores of homes and recreation areas have been damaged by Ukraine artillery.
The U.S. sent long-range artillery to Ukraine with a condition that it not be used to bomb Russian cities and towns. But Ukraine troops have pushed close enough to the Russian border to reach those towns with their own equipment.
“I decided that from tomorrow, schools in the Belgorod district in a 10-kilometer zone along the border will be transferred to distance learning,” Gladkov said in a VK social media post.
The post drew numerous responses from locals urging Gladkov to create a volunteer battalion to provide protection, including mining the border.
“Why did other regions of the country begin ‘self-mobilization,’ while our region, regularly shelled, having the largest border with the enemy, hesitates?” wrote Andrey Rozenberg. “Self-defense detachments must be created.”
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Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, an envoy of Pope Francis, was shot at Saturday as he delivered humanitarian aid in Pope Francis’ name near the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, the Vatican said. Krajewski emerged “unscathed and continuing his mission,” the Vatican News Service reported.
Krajewski’s group, which included a Catholic bishop, a Protestant bishop and a Ukrainian soldier, came under light arms fire while doing their work outside Zaporizhzhia and sought cover, he said.
The incident took place on the ninth anniversary of Krajewski’s bishop ordination on Sept. 17, 2013, in St. Peter’s Basilica during a ceremony attended by Pope Francis. The cardinal said he and his group had loaded a minibus with provisions and driven to the front lines – where “no one besides soldiers enter anymore” because of the heavy fighting — when the firing began.
“For the first time in my life, I didn’t know where to run,” he told Vatican News. “It’s not enough to run. You have to know where to go.”
Ultimately the shooting stopped and the group continued to deliver aid.
Hugely popular Russian singer Alla Pugacheva said Sunday that she wants to be placed on Russia’s foreign agents list in solidarity with her husband. Her post on Instagram comes after Pugacheva’s husband, singer and TV presenter Maxim Galkin, was added to the foreign agents register on Saturday by the justice ministry. Galkin, who has criticized Russia for sending troops into Ukraine, is accused of conducting political activities on behalf of Ukraine and receiving Ukrainian funding. Galkin responded that he made money in Ukraine at a comedy show years ago.
“The rationale for the decision is that I allegedly receive funds from Ukraine, with which I do political activities,” he said on Instagram. “First of all, I don’t do political activities. On stage at my concerts, I do humor and political satire, as I have for 28 years.”
Contributing: The Associated Press
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