As RIA Novosti reports, activist Roman Gerasimov, along with other residents of the Degtyansky village council, previously recorded a video for a direct line with Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to prevent the construction of a landfill.

Information appeared in social networks and local media that three unknown assailants attacked activist Gerasimov near a house in the village of Berezovka and stabbed him.

“We've really seen these messages.

And, of course, we mean to contact our colleagues in the Ministry of Internal Affairs to find out what really happened there, ”said Peskov.

He explained that the Kremlin is analyzing information about threats to those who have turned to the president with a complaint in a direct line.

A direct line with Russian President Vladimir Putin took place on June 30.

It lasted more than three hours, the head of state managed to answer 68 questions.