Around 9,000 children to be evacuated from Russia's Belgorod due to Ukrainian shelling - governor


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  • Tuesday, 19 Mar 2024

FILE PHOTO: A view shows a destroyed building hit by shelling, what local authorities called a Ukrainian military strike, in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Belgorod, Russia, March 17, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Around 9,000 children will be evacuated from the Russian city of Belgorod and from several districts in the wider region of the same name due to Ukrainian shelling, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the regional governor, said on Tuesday.

The first group of 1,200 children will be evacuated on March 22, Gladkov said.

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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