Residents of Belgorod region must extinguish fires themselves after drone strikes

The rescue of drowning people is the work of the drowning themselves. This is how one can describe the care of the governor of Belgorod Region for the residents of settlements near the border with Ukraine, where a de facto sanitary zone is already being created.

Vladimir Putin promised to create a sanitary zone on Ukrainian territory along the border with Russia. In fact, a “gray” area is already forming in the Belgorod Region.

The authorities of the Belgorod Region have refused to send equipment and firefighters to extinguish fires in settlements that are regularly subjected to shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and drone attacks. The shelling is not random. All settlements house Russian military personnel, their bases, storage facilities, and military equipment.

Initially, Gladkov ordered fire extinguishers to be sent to the people so they could fight fires themselves. Now, the people living practically on the front line have been “blessed” with additional measures.

Residents of the Graivoron urban district will be given special pumps, hoses, and protective clothing in addition to fire extinguishers to put out fires in their homes after drone attacks.

This is how the governor of Belgorod Region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, responded to the question of what the authorities can do to help the residents of Graivoron save their property from drone attacks.

“Starting Monday, we will be distributing specially designed mobile units that include a pump, a water tank, hoses for extinguishing, hoses for water supply, tools, and protective clothing—all on small cart-like vehicles,” promised the governor to the residents of the Graivoron urban district.

People are shocked by such government decisions. There are currently many elderly people in the border settlements, for whom these special mobile firefighting units are like spaceships that need to be operated.

Essentially, nothing new is happening. Back in April, Gladkov stated that the Russian army, specifically the air defense, is incapable of protecting against drone strikes, and therefore businesses must independently solve this protection problem. Now it has become clear that people must also deal with the consequences of the strikes on their own.