“We have finished with our tasks, this season anyway.
Now the troops are leaving their places of permanent deployment, ”TASS quotes him.
Shoigu added that the department will return to the city in the spring if necessary.
Earlier, Putin said that in Usolye-Sibirskoye it was possible to liquidate dangerous facilities and prevent an environmental disaster.
At the end of June, Putin instructed to develop a work plan to eliminate environmental problems in Usolye-Sibirskoye, which had been accumulating "since the 30s of the last century."
Later, the consolidated detachment of the Russian Ministry of Defense arrived in the city.
The Russian government has allocated 434 million rubles to resolve the situation in Usolye-Sibirskoye.