“The Ministry of Agriculture of the Belgorod Region today begins transferring 334 million rubles to 21 agricultural enterprises,” he wrote on his VKontakte page.

It is clarified that this is the first tranche of 1.8 billion rubles that the Russian government transferred to help agricultural enterprises in the region that suffered from Ukrainian attacks.

“This work will continue further,” he wrote.

Gladkov added that this assistance is especially important and necessary during the spring sowing period.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to study the issue of lending to agricultural enterprises in new regions.