Southern Russia makes bomb shelters ready

Svitlana Kizilova - Wednesday, 27 April 2022, 23:13

The Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, stated on Wednesday, 27 April, that Russia needs to operate a civil air defence warning system and to ensure the bomb shelters are "up to proper standards".

Source: TASS

Details: The Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, held a meeting on "district security" on Wednesday, 27 April.

According to the Russian high-ranking official, the southern regions of the Russian Federation must make sure that their systems are operating reliably. These allow the population to be notified urgently in case of emergency. He also called for the bomb shelters to be brought up to proper standards.

Nikolai Patrushev added that it is also important to strengthen the material and technical basis as well as the staffing of departments and organisations, whose tasks include ensuring chemical and biological safety.

Quote: "Civil defence facilities must be brought up to proper standards everywhere."

Background:

Mykhailo Podoliak, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, believes that the rate of Russia’s "demilitarisation" in regions that share a border with Ukraine will continue to grow in the coming weeks.

The governor of the Belgorod oblast (region) of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported on the morning of 27 April that at 3:35 a.m. he "woke up from a loud sound similar to an explosion." He later found out that an ammunition depot had caught fire near the village of Stara Nelidovka. There were no civilian casualties or any damage to residential buildings and houses.

Subsequently, the governor of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, Roman Starovoit, said that on the night of 27 April, residents of Kursk heard a "bang" - allegedly the sound of triggered air defences.

Two other explosions were documented in one of the districts of Voronezh in Russia.