“Spread this message among Belgorod residents and help save the lives of fellow countrymen.”
The warning came as Vladimir Putin hit out at Ukraine claiming its defence forces had been involved in “terrorist” activity to thwart the presidential election.
According to the TASS news agency, Putin said: “These enemy strikes will not remain unpunished.”
He continued: “These attacks, pointless from the military point of view and criminal from the humanitarian point of view, as has been said, are geared to hinder presidential election in Russia.
“I am convinced that our people will respond to this by being more consolidated. Who do they want to intimidate? The Russian people? The Multiethnic people of Russia?”
The election has already resulted in protests across Russia, with reports of voters setting fire to ballot boxes to disrupt the voting process – which experts expect will result in another term in power for Putin.
