A huge icicle fell on one of the heads of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, General Anatoly Yelizarov, when he was walking down a Moscow street. The officer was seriously injured and was later operated on, TASS and The Insider report. The prosecutor’s office opened criminal proceedings to establish who was involved in clearing the building of snow and ice.

A huge pillar of ice broke away from the National Crisis Management Center building on a Moscow street as the 50-year-old general stood on the sidewalk during his lunch break.

The incident occurred on December 27, when a huge piece of ice seriously hit the head of the operational management department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.

Yelizarov was operated on after a brain injury, he is now conscious, the department reported.

The prosecutor’s office opened an investigation to find out the circumstances and causes of the event, as well as the responsibility for keeping and cleaning the ice.

In December, a record amount of precipitation was recorded in Moscow

December 2022 set a record for the amount of precipitation in the entire history of meteorological observations in Moscow in conditions where Russian propaganda in recent months tried to constantly scare Europe with this year’s cold winter, reports Lenta.

The scientific head of the Moscow Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Vilfand, spoke about the record amount of precipitation in the Russian capital on Tuesday in an interview with Russia’s oldest newspaper “Izvestia”.

“December [2022] became the leader in the amount of precipitation in 143 years of instrumental observations conducted in Moscow,” he said, noting that snow, sleet and rain fell in the Russian capital this month.

His comments came days after Russia Today released a new hallucinatory video in which he tried to scare Europeans by suspending Russian natural gas supplies this winter, after Gazprom cut supplies to several European Union countries months ago after they gave up on it. pay them in rubles.