President Vladimir Putin congratulated the employees and veterans of the Ministry of Emergency Situations on the Day of the Rescuer during a video message, recording showed TV channel “Russia 24”.
Putin expressed his gratitude to them for their difficult service, which is associated with risk, and a worthy solution to the assigned tasks. “This year, EMERCOM units fought the consequences of floods, saved settlements in many regions of Russia from fire,” he said, adding that rescuers also actively participated in Russian humanitarian missions in Afghanistan, Syria and other states, delivered the Russian vaccine against COVID -19 to other countries.
A monument to the deceased head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Zinichev will appear in Moscow
In early September, the president in Blagoveshchensk awarded ten rescuers who participated in extinguishing fires and eliminating floods in the country’s regions. In particular, he presented a medal of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, II degree, to a doctor of a search and rescue squad from the Amur Region.
“I have been to those facilities and situations in which you constantly have to work many times. I’ve been there: I came, I left. And there, directly with people … I know how difficult it is – physically, mentally, and you have to go through all this, your life consists of this, ”Putin said.
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