Azarov: Officials overestimated phosphorus catastrophe

First vice PM Mykola Azarov declared that ecological results of accident in Lviv region are much overestimated by politicians. Azarov said that in Moscow today.

“Size of this accident is overestimated by number of officials who tried to turn everything in politics and blame the government,” he said.

He also noted that the government acted very operative to liquidate consequences of accident. According to Azarov, not much money was needed for catastrophe liquidation. “For our budget it is not big sum, we have already started financing of works on consequences liquidation,” he said.