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According to sources, the work of the station, located near Kumak village, has already been stopped. The radar shutdown caused problems in tracking intercontinental ballistic missile launches in a southerly direction.
“The threat of flooding the final Voronezh radar is very high. If this happens, it will not be possible to quickly restore the operation of the radar; it will take at least a few years,” the statement said.
The Voronezh-M station in the Orenburg Region began operations in 2017. December. Its operational range is 6,000 kilometers.
We remind you that on April 5 A dam burst in the city of Orsk in Russia’s Orenburg region, and the authorities announced an emergency evacuation of several districts. The situation became critical, the floods spread to Kazakhstan.
It is reported that more than 90 thousand people were evacuated due to flooded rivers in northern Kazakhstan and the southern Ural region of Russia. These areas are experiencing some of the worst flooding in decades.
In ten regions of Kazakhstan, as well as in Russia’s western Siberia and Orenburg regions, rivers have been flooding for several days, entire cities and villages have been flooded. Both Moscow and Astana have declared a state of emergency.
“More than 86,000 people have been rescued and evacuated since the beginning of the floods. people,” the Kazakh government said on Tuesday. According to her, 3,365 residential buildings were flooded in five regions of the huge Central Asian country. The government announced that it is providing humanitarian aid to the affected regions. President Kasim Zomartas Tokaev called the floods one of the worst natural disasters in 80 years.
Emergency services in neighboring Russia said Tuesday that 10,550 residential buildings were flooded, mostly in the Orenburg region, and more than 6,500 people were evacuated there. The Ural River has almost completely flooded the city of Orsk and is now approaching dangerous levels in the main city of Orenburg. In the last 24 hours, 550 thousand In the populous city of Orenburg, the river rose by 25 centimeters, officials said on Tuesday.
Orenburg Mayor Sergey Salmin said on Tuesday that the situation in eight villages near Orenburg is “critical”.
Rivers also flood in the Kurgan and Tyumen regions of Western Siberia. Officials in Kurgan, a city near Kazakhstan, said on Tuesday that 689 people had been evacuated due to the overflowing Tobol River. Approximately 300 thousand the mayor’s office of the populous city of Kurgan reported that flooding could reach the local airport.
In one village of the Kurgan region, Zverinogolovsk, the water of the Tobol River rose by 74 centimeters in just two hours, Russian media reported.
Russian Emergency Situations Minister Alexander Kurenkov went to the Orenburg Region on Tuesday. The ministry reported that he will visit Kurgan and Tyumen regions. She posted a video of A. Kurenkov flying over the flooded areas in a helicopter, with huge expanses of water and submerged villages visible to the horizon.
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