The head of Russias Wagner mercenary group said Saturday that he was ready to send out fighters to the Russian Belgorod area, which surrounds Ukraine and has come under intense shelling.? Thousands have left villages in southwestern Belgorod after days of attacks that followed an armed attack from Ukraine.? Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been embroiled in a public spat with Russias routine army and has accused Moscows military leadership of being not able to safeguard Belgorod.?< p > If the defense ministry, in the future, does not stop what is occurring in the Belgorod region.

then of course we will come to protect Russian land, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, stated on Telegram.? The civilian population is dying in Belgorod, Prigozhin stated, adding he would not await an invite to release his fighters there.? Prigozhin has said that his fighters have actually mainly left the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut that Wagner stated it captured last month in the longest and bloodiest fight of the dispute.

Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that the area had been struck by 500 attacks on Friday? including weapons and rocket fire.?< p > He said five individuals had passed away in the shelling.

The town of Shebekino has actually been most impacted, with hundreds of its citizens getting away.