科津卡看起来像俄罗斯别尔哥罗德州的普通村庄，但它距乌克兰边境不到1公里，去年被当局关闭，约1000名居民中如今只剩不到10人（不到1%）仍冒险留下。乌军在2023年和2024年两次进入该村，部分村庄在战斗中被毁；一名87岁的前居民回忆士兵没伤害平民，只没收手机后又把手机留在树下供人取回。
在过去4年里，别尔哥罗德市居民（曾约40万人，如今已降至更少）逐渐习惯战争；自1月初乌克兰导弹击中热电厂后，该地区一度接近停电，虽大体恢复供电供暖，但据州长称备用电力不足以满足所有需求。1月13日州长警告若失去电力可能疏散城市；两年前报复性火箭弹袭击导致25人死亡的地点，如今仍有玩具和鲜花的临时纪念地。
1月12日州长宣布打击“内部敌人”和“散播不满者”，而一份“煽动恐慌”的初步名单包括讨论居民问题的社媒群组，以及由流亡记者运营、拥有10万订阅者的Telegram频道Pepel。当地媒体Fonar在1月的读者调查中，四分之一受访者感到“崩溃与失望”，差不多同样比例的人觉得生活停摆，只有6%表示向“特别军事行动”参与者提供援助；与此同时，活动人士称许多士兵寻求终止合同，但即使受伤者也已一年无法离开。
Kozinka looks like an ordinary village in Russia’s Belgorod region, but it sits less than 1km from the Ukrainian border and was shut down by authorities last year, leaving fewer than ten of roughly 1,000 residents still there (under 1%) at their peril. Ukrainian forces entered the village twice, in 2023 and 2024, destroying part of it in fighting; an 87-year-old former resident recalls soldiers not targeting civilians, confiscating phones, and then leaving them under a tree for villagers to retrieve.
Over the past four years, residents of Belgorod city (once about 400,000, now fewer) have grown used to war; since early January, after Ukrainian missiles hit the thermal power plant, the region has teetered on blackout, and while power and heating are largely restored, the governor says reserve capacity is insufficient for everyone’s needs. On January 13 he warned the city might be evacuated if power is lost; near the spot where 25 people were killed in earlier attacks, a shrine of toys and flowers still marks the toll.
On January 12 the governor announced a fight against “internal enemies” who “sow discontent,” and a preliminary list of those “stoking panic” includes social-media groups discussing residents’ problems and Pepel, a Telegram news channel with 100,000 subscribers run by an émigré journalist. In a January reader survey by the local site Fonar, a quarter felt “devastated and disappointed,” a similar share felt life was on hold, and only 6% said they provide aid to participants in Russia’s “special military operation”; meanwhile an activist says many soldiers seek to terminate contracts, but even the injured have been unable to leave for a year.
Source: Near the front line, Russians are growing tired of war
Subtitle: A report from Belgorod, where not all residents see Ukrainians as enemies
Dateline: 1月 29, 2026 04:18 上午 | Belgorod and Kozinka