Turkmenistan will provide humanitarian assistance to children affected by the flood in the Primorsky Territory of the Russian Federation. The relevant Decree was signed today by President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, the information program Watan of the Turkmen television reported.

Based on the primordial good neighborly relations, humanistic traditions and principles of the Turkmen people, taking into account the natural disasters that occurred in the Primorsky Territory of the Russian Federation, the head of state instructed the Ministry of Textile Industry and the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of the country in cooperation with the Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Charitable Foundation to Assist Children in Need of Guardianship prepare and donate the relevant goods and food products as humanitarian aid for the children of the Primorsky Territory of the Russian Federation.

The document also instructs the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to organize the dispatch and transfer of humanitarian aid to the Primorsky Territory of the Russian Federation in August 2023.

Floods in Primorye began after heavy rains that took place on August 9-11. More than five thousand residential buildings and 7.4 thousand household plots were flooded.

According to the authorities, 65 settlements were affected due to downpours and floods. One of the most affected cities is Spassk-Dalny, the water level here has risen by two meters, which is four times the historical maximum. About 500 people were evacuated from the city. Water continues to arrive in Ussuriysk, the second largest city in Primorye.

Meanwhile, weather forecasters announced a storm warning in Primorsky Krai on August 23 and 25. On the rivers of the region, the formation of local rain floods is again expected with a height of water level rise, mainly by 0.5 - 1.5 meters. In the upper reaches of the rivers and in small watercourses, sharp rises of water up to two meters are not ruled out.