Because of toxic landfill
Group of Russian soldiers threaten to return home
08/29/2023, 10:16 p.m
Again and again there are reports of dissatisfaction in the ranks of the Russian army. Some soldiers are now apparently speaking in a video to President Putin – not because of the war in Ukraine, but because of a garbage dump in their southern Russian homeland.
Several Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine are threatening to give up their posts if a hazardous landfill site in their home region of southern Russia is not shut down. report this Russian media.
In a video addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office and an investigative committee, several men in military uniforms urged the authorities to stop dumping waste at a landfill site in the city of Poltavskaya, Krasnodar Territory. “All toxins leach from the landfill into the waterways and river that flow into our city. We ask that you save our hometown from death and stop transporting garbage from other regions there,” said loudly, “Moscow Times” one of the soldiers in the video.
The residents would be poisoned by the leachates, it is said. “In almost every family there are already people who are suffering from cancer.” The authorities had failed to solve the problem with the garbage.
According to the reports, the soldiers are asking to stop the garbage collection from different districts and to remove the dangerous facility. “If you don’t solve this problem, we have to go back and join the ranks of those who want to close this landfill, who dream of a healthy future for their children,” the soldiers said.
The problem appears to have existed for several years. Local activists have reportedly protested repeatedly and also blocked the road for garbage trucks. The public prosecutor’s office is said to have carried out an inspection and found numerous violations. Accordingly, household and industrial waste was dumped illegally. According to the “Moscow Times”, the soldiers’ warning is only the latest appeal to the authorities in Moscow decades of struggle the residents of Poltavskaya to close the landfill established in 1992.