Zaporizhia region has been transferred to a high alert regime on Jan. 31.
According to the press and information department of Zaporizhia
Regional State Administration, civil protection head of Zaporizhia
region Hryhoriy Samardak signed a decree “on transferring the
territorial subsystem of the unified state system of civil protection to
a high alert mode.”
“It is necessary in all areas of the region to ensure readiness for
notifying controlling authorities and civil defense forces, as well as
the public about the threat of emergencies, informing them on actions in
a possible area of emergency,” reads the document.
According to the press service, the chairmen of regional state
administrations, the mayors of cities of regional importance have been
tasked to transfer the parts of the territorial subsystem of the unified
state civil defense system to a high alert mode and form mobile groups.
As reported, the Cabinet of Ministers on Jan. 26 introduced a
regime of high readiness to respond to emergencies throughout Ukraine.
A state of emergency situation is regulated by the Code of Civil Defense of Ukraine, adopted in October 2012.
