Lukashenko complained about the Russian dump – so that he would tell Putin

Residents of the village of Poltava in the Krasnodar region appealed to Alexander Lukashenko to tell Russian President Vladimir Putin about the garbage dump. “Kedr” writes about it.

The Stanichniks decided to turn to the Belarusian leader “from desperation, because the Russian authorities do not hear them,” explained Natalya Garyaeva, head of the “Poltava Against the Dump” movement. According to her, they are planning to expand the landfill towards the houses, although earlier the governor of the region promised that this would not happen.

The head of the district, the center of which is Poltava, Yury Vasyn said that residents of Poltava can complain “wherever they see fit”, but the landfill in the village “is located on legal grounds”. Vasyna’s family owns a company that takes waste to this landfill, “Kedr” notes.

• Activists of Poltava have been demanding for several years to close the landfill, which, according to them, poisons the air, soil and irrigation canals feeding the rice fields. 40% of all Russian rice is grown precisely in Poltava, writes “Kedr”.
• Stanychniks repeatedly complained to local authorities, wrote to the General Prosecutor’s Office and the presidential administration. As a sign of protest against the landfill, residents of Poltava held a public rally and blocked the road leading to the landfill. The authorities responded with arrests and fines for holding non-agreed rallies.
• During the June mutiny of the PMC “Wagner” in Russia, Lukashenko held negotiations with the head of the group Yevgeny Prigozhin, after which he stopped his “campaign to Moscow”.