Demidovka () is a settlement in the

Krasnoyaruzhsky District Krasnoyaruzhsky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Belgorod Oblast, Russia.Law #248 Municipally, it is incorporated as Krasnoyaruzhsky Municipal District.Law #159 It is located in the west of the oblast, o ...

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. On 20 March 2025, during the

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, the Command post at Demidovka was destroyed by the Air Force of Ukraine, during the 2025 Belgorod incursion. According to a post on

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by pro-Russian milblogger Yuri Podolyaka,

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entered the village on 24 March, gaining a foothold in its south and trying to dislodge Russian forces from the north.

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{{Authority control Rural localities in Krasnoyaruzhsky District