Russian President Vladimir Putin announced attempts to strike at the Kursk NPP. The Russian leader announced this at a meeting on the situation in the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions.
“The enemy tried to strike at the nuclear power plant tonight. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been informed, they promise to come and send specialists themselves to evaluate the situation. I hope that this will eventually be done from them,”- Putin said.
In addition, the President of the Russian Federation asked “to prepare the relevant instructions right now and proceed to their execution immediately”
“As for security issues, these are problems that lie in the zone of responsibility of power structures. This is a separate topic. I hope that as it was reported today, the interaction between local, regional authorities, government, law enforcement agencies has been established, and is established. This will also play its positive role in achieving the goals that we have here, ”he said.
115 thousand people were resettled from dangerous areas of the Kursk region
In turn, the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov said at the meeting that at the moment, 115 thousand people were resettled from the dangerous regions of the Kursk region. According to him, the points of temporary placement and power are deployed in 29 subjects with a significant stock of places
“taking into account the amount of payments, the government has previously prepared decisions on the allocation of another 713 million rubles for these purposes to previously brought, and 858 million rubles will be additionally aimed at providing citizens with the loss of property,” he said.
“In the whole Kursk, Belgorod, Bryansk regions, all the problems are constantly monitored. Yesterday we literally held a meeting with the heads of regions, according to its results, the relevant departments have been given a number of instructions, in particular, to study the issue of damage caused to agricultural enterprises and industrial “, – added Manturov.