Elections in the border areas of the Belgorod region were postponed due to the high alert regime

Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Ella Pamfilova during report about the readiness of the electoral system for a single voting day, she said that the election commission of the Belgorod region decided to postpone voting in elections in two districts of the region due to the high alert regime. Mrs. Pamfilova also called the region heroic.

The Belgorod Election Commission postponed the elections to the Zemstvo Assembly of the Zhuravlevsky rural settlement of the Belgorod District and to the Council of Deputies of the Shebekinsky Urban District back in June. The powers of the acting deputies were extended. The leadership of the election commission explained that the decision to postpone was made in order to protect the life and health of citizens.

On a single day of voting in the Belgorod region, by-elections to the regional duma, elections of deputies of the city council of Belgorod, as well as elections of representative bodies of local self-government in 13 municipal districts will be held.

Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the Belgorod region has been subjected to shelling and attacks from drones. In border Zhuravlevka back in March last year was introduced emergency mode. At the beginning of last summer, the Shebekinsky urban district was subjected to intense shelling, due to which most of the inhabitants left it. At the end of June, after a decrease in the number of attacks, residents started to come back to the district.

Behind past day 31 mortar shells and 13 fragmentation ammunition were fired at the settlements of the Shebekinsky urban district.

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Sergei Tolmachev, Voronezh