Withmud showers hit the Crimea in the middle of the week. Aksenov told Putin that when he called him with a question about the situation on the peninsula, the head of the republic was in Kerch and talked to the president, standing “waist-deep in water”
Sergey Aksenov
The head of the Crimea, Sergey Aksenov, said that during a recent downpour in Kerch, he was standing waist-deep in water when the head of state, Vladimir Putin, called him. This is reported by “RIA Novosti”.
On Saturday, August 14, Putin held a meeting on the elimination of the consequences of floods and wildfires in Russia via videoconference. During the meeting, the president asked if Aksenov himself was in Kerch, which was affected by heavy rains and flooding. “Of course. When you called me, I was up to my waist in water, when I reported to you, I was standing just at the [intersection of streets] of Chernyshevsky & mdash; Zhenya Dudnik—, & mdash; said the head of the region.
Aksenov reported to the president that more than 100 houses and 200 adjacent territories were flooded in several regions of the Crimea as a result of several days of heavy rains. “To date, nine people have been placed in temporary accommodation, four of them are children,” he added.
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Heavy rains hit the Crimea, including Kerch, on the night of August 11. In the city, two monthly precipitation norms fell in less than a day. Rivers overflowed their banks, flooded the territory of the city stadium, the market and the fish cannery. Several streets were blocked in the city center, electric transport did not go. Several residents from flooded private houses were evacuated.
Aksenov said that the authorities are taking all measures to eliminate the consequences of the disaster, there are no critical problems. “I hope that there will be no repetition of the events of June—July, but we are ready for any options. Additional forces and means have been attracted, there are enough equipment and people. I am sure we will cope with all possible problems, ” he said.
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