Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the idea of financing territorial defense in the Bryansk region of Russia. Putin thus supported the request from the Bryansk region Governor Alexander Bogomaz.
The Bryansk region currently needs additional border protection from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but the region's budget is seriously limited, Bogomaz said. There governor asked Putin to finance the territorial defense forces from the state budget.
The Ukrainian authorities held a similar meeting the same day. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky visited the border area of the Sumy region of Ukraine (Sumy borders on Russia's Kursk region) where he held a meeting with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky.
"The Commander-in-Chief reported on the operational situation in all areas of active operations and, in particular, in most difficult areas of the front," the Ukrainian leader wrote on Telegram.
During the meeting, Zelensky raised the issue of the operational situation on the border with Russia.
The Russian government is ready to allocate 858 million rubles for residents of the Russian border regions who lost their property because of Ukraine's attacks.
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov said that the government would send additional aid in the amount of 713 million rubles to those Russians who suffered during Ukraine's incursion.