A Freedom of Russia Legion representative confirmed to Kyiv Post that fighting occurs on Russian territory. Media reports suggest Lozovaya Rudka in Belgorod is now under Russian volunteer control.
A Russian governor has asked residents of Shebekino in Russia, who fled the city when the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion entered Russia's Belgorod Oblast at the end of May, to return home.
Thebattles in the Shebekino district of Russia’s Belgorod Oblast demonstrated how the Putin regime “fears true patriots,” the Freedom of Russia Legion wrote on Telegram on June 15, while announcing new missions.
Governor of Belgorod Viacheslav Gladkov said he hoped all members of the group from Ukraine would be killed. The ‘Freedom of Russian Legion’ and ‘Russian Volunteer Corps’, have struck deep inside Russian territory