Putin joked about fires before the floods of the Siberians

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the injured in the Irkutsk region. In words that people have thoughts about moving from a flooded Tulun to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the head of state recalled that he was covered by fires.

Vladimir Putin met with several families from the Tulun who suffered from flood. They rest in the Dagomysa recreation complex in Sochi, the Kremlin press service said.

Putin noted that due to the second wave of flood, problems with the deadlines for housing recovery are possible. “Nevertheless, they try to do everything to the maximum,” he added. “In any case, everything will be built.”

Then the president asked if the inhabitants of the Angara region liked to relax in the south.

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“Everything is fine here, everything is beautiful, where we were,” said one of the victims. “It’s scary to return there, all the more, they left, it was so, and now the second wave is still, and there, probably, everything is completely scary.”

“Thoughts already appear to move to another city, to Krasnoyarsk, for example,” one of the men added.

“There are fires,” Putin grinned. - Everywhere there is [problems]. <...> Moreover, fires, unfortunately, are in areas that are removed from settlements. There you can’t get to some areas on fires on the plane, 500-600 km from the places where the planes can start. ”

In June 2019, fires and floods began in Eastern Siberia. The north of the Irkutsk region, the Krasnoyarsk Territory continues to burn - millions of hectares of taiga have already been destroyed. The main part of the fires was not extinguished for a long time: the foci were located in such a called control zone, forest plots removed from settlements, which in 2015 allowed not to extinguish by law. The area of ​​fires has grown to the scale of the disaster. In July, smoke rushed to the west for a long time - he was able to cover the regions of Siberia, up to the Urals, and even leaked to the European part of the Russian Federation. Only after numerous complaints of people, petitions, statements of stars and proposals of US President Donald Trump for help, the Russian government decided to give additional funding, to allocate equipment and people to combat fires. Before that, officials spoke about the economic inappropriateness of stewing.

In addition to fires, the Irkutsk region since the end of June has experienced two waves of the destructive flood. Tulun, Nizhneudinsk, Baikalsk and several regions of the region flooded. The flood was so strong that the tulun did not help the dams erected for such cases, even high -rise buildings were in the water, thousands of people were left without housing. Only according to the regional government, about 16 thousand people can apply for payments for the purchase of new housing.