Bloody Rivers. The Ministry of Natural Resources will investigate reports of pig blood being dumped into a river in a village near Kaliningrad.
People the village of Vodnoye in the Zelenogradsky district stripped offand in the video Workers were dumping pig blood from a tank into a local river. The water in the river turned red. Ministry of Natural Resources of the Kaliningrad Region area beginning аadministrative investigation, but how this will help the river is still unknown.
The video's author noted that, judging by the distinctive tire tracks in the grass, this isn't the first time the spill has occurred. A slaughterhouse opened in the village recently, and at first, the villagers were understanding about the unpleasant odors. When the stench became unbearable, and fish floated belly-up on a neighboring farm, the locals became outraged.
"But I understand that they [the entrepreneurs] don't have treatment facilities, or that some pits are filled with this machmala. They hire trucks, and the trucks simply haul this pig blood to the fields and rivers. It's starting to get hot now, and there are already flies swarming there; it's impossible to breathe, there's nothing to breathe. Our house is 300 meters away, literally beyond that little forest. I have children, I have grandchildren.""," a woman who caught the workers at the scene of the crime back in May told reporters.
According to residents, two tankers were impounded, and the Ministry has launched an administrative investigation to identify the organizers and those involved, hold them accountable, and recover damages for the environment.
It's unclear whether this will scare other entrepreneurs, as such "bloody leaks" have become something of a tradition in the region. In 2016, a livestock farm literally зwas bleeding animals land in the village of Zhilkino, Nemansky District, in 2011, bloody сMela River in the village of Pervomaysky, Nemansky DistrictThe authorities were of no help. Residents concluded: "They [the businessmen] have everything under control.".
Photo: Green Front, video: VKontakte public page "Russian West"