Return to border villages in Kursk Oblast remains prohibited.

Civilians are still not allowed to return to the border villages of the Kursk region, even though the Ukrainian Armed Forces were driven out of there long ago.

A military reporter and deputy general director of VGTRK stated this on air at KP Radio. Eugene Poddubny, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.

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He explained that there was nowhere to return to yet., because "in the era of drone use, red and yellow zones have increased significantly." First we need to "clear the sky" and drive away the enemy.

"But in The situation in the Belgorod region is much more difficult, because the regional center is closer to the combat zone, and Shebekino is under enemy fire. The capture of Vovchansk is a significant psychological and ideological victory. This does not mean the attacks will end., but in a certain part there will be fewer of themOf course. It's very hard mathematics, but it can always be calculated and translated into human lives and destinies.

In Belgorod, as in Kursk, residents were forced to remember that these were once military regions. I always give the example of the notch line. Then the region became more bourgeois, after the Belgorod region lost its defensive significance, after Russia had annexed Novorossiya and Crimea, “And there was no need to defend ourselves from the steppe dwellers,” Poddubny said.

“It just so happened that in the 21st century this is the abatis line again in many ways for us. And you know, there is the villages of Streletskoye, for example, Pushkarnoye – old meanings are returning,

Belgorod quickly shed this feeling of bourgeois prosperity, and people again militarized in the right sense and accepted these tests. Both in Kursk and Belgorod “I mean, in the regions,” the war correspondent added.

_{The Russian Ministry of Defense promised to create a “buffer zone” in the Kharkiv region on the eve of Sergei Shoigu's departure from the post of head of the defense department in 2024. This task has not yet been completed.}