Moscow: Following Typhoon Khanun's passage through the Primorye region on Sunday, Russia dispatched a task force to supervise the cleanup efforts in some of the country's Far Eastern regions, according to the Moscow emergency ministry.
According to the ministry, there were 4,368 flooded homes, along with 5,654 adjacent plots and 7 apartment buildings, according to the Russian news agency TASS. It claimed that 28 settlements were still cut off.
The majority of the affected homes, according to the report, were located in Ussuriysk, Spassk-Dalny, and the Oktyabrsky Municipal District in the Primorye region, where the port of Vladivostok serves as the regional administrative hub.
In its Telegram channel, the ministry stated that the task force would "coordinate the work to eliminate the consequences of the flood." It claimed that Mi-8 helicopters assisted in the transfer of rescuers to the scene and that its aircraft delivered humanitarian aid.
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It added that there had been no reports of casualties and that by sending in units early, it had been able to prevent more significant damage.
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According to TASS, Ussuriysk, the second-largest city in Primorye, experienced its worst and largest flood in ten years, affecting between 35 and 40 percent of its area.
