"They're undermining the president's authority." Residents of 10 Ryazan towns were banned from leaving the country due to uncleared roads.
414 people were cut off from civilization in the Skopinsky, Aleksandro-Nevsky, Mikhailovsky, Pronsky, Ukholovsky, Sapozhkovsky, Miloslavsky, Starozhilovsky, Rybnovsky, Putyatinsky, and Ryazansky districts. Authorities say a unique natural phenomenon—a ground blizzard—is to blame.
"The Skopin-Kremlevo-Pavelets road. People with children are stuck in cars for days. Neither ambulances nor fire trucks can get through. The local authorities haven't brought any food or water to the cars. And this whole mess has been going on for over two days." — the day before reportshield in the Skopin.info public Natalia Likhacheva.
According to her, they called 112 and the road department throughout the day, but no one helped.
In the comments, residents of the region reported that the same thing is happening in other areas. "We called the Ministry of Emergency Situations so many times, we went to the road construction department, and they rudely answered, 'What are we supposed to do?' The Ministry of Emergency Situations hung up on us." — described the situation Lyudmila Martynova.
"Local authorities are sabotaging the upcoming elections. They're deliberately undermining the current president's authority," "I can't remember anything like this in my life. It's like a day, at most, and that's it, off we go," "5 days! What can we do to finally get proper equipment, not toy tractors that aren't designed for this purpose!" — Internet users commented.
Authorities responded to the regional emergency only this morning. At a government meeting, the Minister of Transport and Highways Pavel Suprun fatheritalsya: the length of the drifts is 701 kilometer + 68 roadsEquipment is working around the clock. Local residents are promised to be freed from the snowdrifts by lunchtime on February 28.
Governor Pavel Malkov noted that this is a “unique weather condition that has never happened before.”
Photo: Natalia Likhacheva
