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Rosselkhoznadzor began to destroy sanctions products. According to Interfax, two batches of tomatoes will be destroyed in the Smolensk region.

The process of destruction will take place at the solid household waste training ground, the local department of Rosselkhoznadzor said. Officials argue that the European origin of tomatoes is established on the basis of logistics of the movement of cargo and accompanying documents.

The Rosselkhoznadzor also agreed with the Federal Customs Service the destruction of 20 tons of sanctions cheese in Orenburg.

Assistant to the head of Rosselkhoznadzor Alexei Alekseenko said that from August 6, sanctions products will be destroyed every day. According to RBC, Alekseenko said that we are talking about regions located on the western and eastern sections of the Russian border. “These will be Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Bryansk, Smolensk, Pskov, the Rostov region, on the other hand, the Orenburg region, Saratov, Altai. Everywhere there is smuggling,” said Alekseenko, noting that if prohibited products are discovered in Moscow and the Moscow region, they will also be destroyed.

Destruction of cheese in the Belgorod region

Meanwhile, the petition on the abolition of the decree on the destruction of sanctions products and the gratuitous transfer to the needy was already signed by more than 250 thousand people. The petition was published on the Change.org website a week ago. The number of signing began to grow rapidly on Wednesday. The day before, only 75 thousand signatures were collected.

"Why do we need to destroy fresh European products that can feed veterans, pensioners, disabled people, large families, affected by natural disasters and other needy?" The President of Russia says to cancel our decree and appeal to the State Duma with a demand to consider and adopt the law on the imported products and goods of people's consumption to be destroyed, especially needing categories of the population. "

Vladimir Putin will be reported about the petition. This was stated by presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports . “Of course, this will be reported about this, along with other media reports,” Peskov said.

At the same time, Peskov noted that information about the number of signatures needs to be verified. “The fact that this resource, if I am not mistaken, does not implies any reliable identification,” he said. “He said.“ Therefore, here, probably, it remains to determine how reliable this amount is taking into account the pace of the set. ”

Journalists asked the press secretary if there was any chance that the situation could change. “I cannot answer your question. The presidential decree comes into force, and it is required to execute. So far, you need to proceed from this,” Peskov said.

On July 29, Putin signed a decree on the destruction of sanctions products on the Russian border. From August 6, all products from the countries that the Russian food embargo are applied to. An exception, the decree says, is only "goods imported by individuals for personal use, or placed under the customs procedure of customs transit and transported to third countries."

With the idea of ​​destroying sanctions products, Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev addressed Putin. On July 24, the head of state approved this initiative , giving the Kremlin administration and the government an order to work out the issue. Then Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also spoke out in support of Tkachev’s proposal.