President Vladimir Putin said there’s no risk from the explosion at a Russian military facility that caused a radiation spike and killed at least five people.
“There’s no threat there and no increase in the background” radiation following the blast, Putin said Monday, in his first comments on the Aug. 8 explosion on an offshore platform in the White Sea near Arkhangelsk. Experts including independent analysts are working at the site and “preventative measures are being taken so that there aren’t any surprises,” Putin told reporters at the start of talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in France.
