Medvedev on space threat: Thank God no one died
Russia's PM spoke about the space threat for the Earth during his visit to Brazil.
Dmitry Medvedev has said in
an interview to the newspaper O Globo,
that there is no effective protection from meteorite fall, this issue should be
solved by all countries together.
"We are very pleased that, thank God, we have no victims, but the
explosion of this meteorite [which recently exploded over the Urals] had a huge
power. It occurred at the height, but the fragments flew to us, it could have ended
much worse. So, if you like, it was a lesson to the humanity and a reminder that
there are threats to the mankind which we can only deal with together," - RIA Novosti quotes Medvedev.
The meteorite exploded at an altitude of about 30,000 meters. Its fragments fell on the neighboring Chelyabinsk region of Russia, as well as to the north of Kazakhstan. More than a thousand people were injured.
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