More than 3,000 people have been evacuated over the last 24 hours from areas in Russia’s western Kursk region affected by the ongoing incursion of the Ukrainian army.
The Russian Emergency Ministry said on Saturday that more than 10,000 local residents were staying at temporary accommodation centres in other parts of the country.
The incursion, which Russian authorities say has led to the evacuation of more than 120,000 civilians, came as a shock to many people living in the Kursk oblast which borders Ukraine.
“No one expected that this kind of conflict was even possible in the Kursk region,” said Yan Furtsev, a member of the local opposition party, Yabloko.”That is why there is such confusion and panic, because citizens are arriving (from front-line areas) and they’re scared, very scared.”
